"Paolo Soleri (21 June 1919? 9 April 2013) was an Italian-American architect. He established Arcosanti and the educational Cosanti Foundation. Soleri was a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006. He died at home of natural causes on 9 April 2013 at the age of 93"--Wikipedia.

"This ethnographic study attempts to understand how former members of experimental communities may act as agents of cultural change after returning to mainstream life in the United States. Members of experimental communities intentionally create new cultural practices as they experiment with proposed solutions to social and ecological problems. Experimental communities are commonly perceived as places people go into to escape social problems, but...