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| Book Review : Building Utopia | 5th Mar '09 |
Building Utopia: Laurie Green and Christopher R. Baker
The clever title of this book works on different levels. Are we ‘Building Utopia’ when putting up new housing estates? Can utopia be found in a ‘Building’? Can regeneration produce a utopian community? This book explores these issues as it tries to address ‘seeking the authentic Church for new communities’. New communities in this context means housing and urban regeneration not Polish migrant workers. P117 interested me as I did not know that Utopia means ‘no place’ and the positive connotations came with the later alternative spelling ‘Eutopia’ meaning ‘good place’. The tension is explored in the text which leads to models and recommendations for different styles of church engagement in the new urban context. This book raises as many questions as it answers but I found it an interesting, helpful and clear read of some important contemporary issues. |
Note: Bishop Laurie Green is a champion in the Church of England for urban, regeneration and new housing issues, and has his own website wher you can read more about the book and the issues he raises, with some more web links.
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