The closest there is to a general overview is Donald E.

America’s Communal Utopias (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997).

On the kibbutz, see Henry Near,

The Kibbutz Movement: A History,

2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press/The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1992-7).

For contemporary eco-villages, see Jan Martin Bang,

Ecovillages: A Practical Guide to Sustainable Communities (Edinburgh: Floris Books and Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2005); Barbro Grindheim and Declan Kennedy (eds.),

Directory of Eco-Villages in Europe (Steyerberg: Global Eco-Village Network (GEN) Europe, 1998); and Barbara Knudsen (ed.),

Eco-Villages and Communities in Australia and New Zealand (Maleny, Queensland: Global Eco-Village Network (GEN) Oceania/Asia, 2000).

On co-housing, see Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett,

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