Utopian organic planning married heaven and earth in miniature island worlds

Evidence

These same holistic principles integrated Valentin Andreä’s ideal city, Christianopolis. Christianopolis was located on a triangular island that, like the City of the Sun, was a “world in miniature” and was inhabited by people with common ideals and principles. The island was ”… rich in grain and pasture fields, watered with rivers and brooks, adorned with woods and vineyards, full of animals, just as if it were a whole world in miniature. One might think that here the heavens and the earth had been married and were living together in everlasting peace.” — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 385

Categorization

• SHARE: For a colleague into utopian literature — the ‘heavens and earth married’ phrasing of Christianopolis as a concrete Renaissance organic-planning text.
• XREF: connects to: Organic cosmology was embodied in circular city plans replicating the macrocosm — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 382; Commodification of land, not utopian design, universalized abstract space — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1614; Utopian use of nature for community need contrasted with capitalist profit-driven exploitation — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 403

Broader Connections

• Utopian use of nature for community need contrasted with capitalist profit-driven exploitation #expands (0.75) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 403
• Commodification of land, not utopian design, universalized abstract space #corroborates (0.72) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1614