Published in 2/2025 - Housing Reform

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A Realized Social Utopia

Esa Laaksonen

La Familistère consists of three four-storey residential units with a glass-roofed courtyard in the middle. Photo: Le Familistère de Guise

19th-century France and the small town of Guise, about 200 kilometres north of Paris, offer inspiration for concepts of more communal living.

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