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Sources of information for this map.
- Wikipedia's List of Utopian Communities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Utopian_communities)
- Wikipedia's List of Intentional Communities

List of 270 Israeli Kibbutz
List of 270 Israeli Kibbutz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_kibbutzim)

The number of Cults is staggering
http://www.cultclinic.org/qa2.html
An estimated 5 to 7 million Americans have been involved in cults, or cult-like groups.
The total number of these groups ranges from 3,000 to 5,000. It is hard to get a precise number as cults change their names, splinter off into other groups, or shut down in one area only to open back up in another.
There are approximately 180,000 new cult recruits every year.

Governmental lists of cults and sects
Wikipedia
The application of the labels (cults or sects) to religious movements in government documents usually signifies the popular and negative use of the term "cult" in English and a functionally similar use of words translated as "sect" in several European languages.[1][2] Government reports which have used these words include those from Austria,[3] Belgium,[4]Canada,[5] France[6] (in 1995), Germany, and the United States. While these documents utilize similar terminology they do not necessarily include the same groups nor is their assessment of these groups based on agreed criteria. Other governments and world bodies also report on new religious movements but do not use these terms to describe the groups.[1]

Fascism: common human traits of utopias
When one considers why a group of people would isolate themselves from the rest of society in order to govern themselves in a purer community as they see it, the following criteria seems appropriate as a basic human trait common to most utopias. Some of the utopias moved so far out west to ungoverned territories beyond the reach of the government established by the American Revolution. Thus, no government other than themselves mattered to them.
According to Howard Paxton’s landmark study “The Anatomy of Fascism”, the signs of fascism are as follows:
- A sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions.
- The primacy of the group, toward which one has duties superior in every right, both universal and personal, and subordination of the individual to it. Subordinate all kinds of civil rights and free speech to the patriotic identity.
- The belief that the group is victimized, which justifies any action without legal or moral limits against the group’s perceived enemies, both internal and external.
- Dread of the group’s decline under the corrosive effect of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences.
- The need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary.
- The need for authority by natural leaders, culminating in a national chief who alone is capable of incarnating the group’s identity.
- The superiority of the leader’s instincts over abstract and universal reason.
- The beauty of violence and efficacy of will, when they are devoted to the group’s success.
- The right of the ‘chosen people’ to dominate others without restraint from any human or divine law, “right” being decided solely by the group’s prowess in a Darwinian struggle, the need for closer integration of a purer community.

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Acorn Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Community)
Acorn Community (http://www.acorncommunity.org/)
Acorn Community is an anarchist, egalitarian, intentional community located in rural Virginia, USA and is a member of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities . Acorn was started in 1993 as a spin-off community of the older, larger Twin Oak. For reasons not entirely clear, the early 1990s saw a surge in interest in intentional communities. The Twin Oaks population swelled to capacity and Acorn was born. The population and stability of Acorn has fluctuated significantly in its relatively short history. Financial crisis and interpersonal conflict have brought the community close to an end on a number of occasions. However, having survived these difficult times, Acorn is now thriving (2013) with a waiting list of people who have been approved to become members when a space becomes available. Acorn supports itself through its non-GMO heirloom seed business (Southern Exposure Seed Exchange). The income from this business is shared among its members.

Alliance Colony
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_Colony)
The Alliance Colony was a Jewish agricultural community that was founded in Alliance, New Jersey on May 10, 1882. It was named after the Alliance Israélite Universelle of Paris and was funded by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society of New York and Philadelphia, [1] and The Baron De Hirsch Fund.

Amana Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amana_Colonies)
The Amana Colonies are a group of settlements of radical German Pietists in Iowa, USA, comprising seven villages. Calling themselves the Ebenezer Society or the Community of True Inspiration (German: die Gemeinde der wahren Inspiration), they first settled in New York state near Buffalo in what is now the Town of West Seneca. However, in order to live out their beliefs in more isolated surroundings they moved west, to east-central Iowa (near present-day Iowa City in 1856. They lived a communal life until the mid-1930s. Due to this, the Amanas are sometimes mistaken for Amish.

Amana High Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amana_Colonies)
The Amana Colonies are a group of settlements of radical German Pietists in Iowa, USA, comprising seven villages. Calling themselves the Ebenezer Society or the Community of True Inspiration (German: die Gemeinde der wahren Inspiration), they first settled in New York state near Buffalo in what is now the Town of West Seneca.  However, in order to live out their beliefs in more isolated surroundings they moved west, to east-central Iowa (near present-day Iowa City in 1856. They lived a communal life until the mid-1930s. Due to this, the Amanas are sometimes mistaken for Amish.

Amana Homestead Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amana_Colonies)
The Amana Colonies are a group of settlements of radical German Pietists in Iowa, USA, comprising seven villages. Calling themselves the Ebenezer Society or the Community of True Inspiration (German: die Gemeinde der wahren Inspiration), they first settled in New York state near Buffalo in what is now the Town of West Seneca. However, in order to live out their beliefs in more isolated surroundings they moved west, to east-central Iowa (near present-day Iowa City in 1856. They lived a communal life until the mid-1930s. Due to this, the Amanas are sometimes mistaken for Amish.

Amana Mittel (Middle) Community
The Amana Colonies are a group of settlements of radical German Pietists in Iowa, USA, comprising seven villages. Calling themselves the Ebenezer Society or the Community of True Inspiration (German: die Gemeinde der wahren Inspiration), they first settled in New York state near Buffalo in what is now the Town of West Seneca. However, in order to live out their beliefs in more isolated surroundings they moved west, to east-central Iowa (near present-day Iowa City in 1856. They lived a communal life until the mid-1930s. Due to this, the Amanas are sometimes mistaken for Amish.

Amana Ost (East) Community
The Amana Colonies are a group of settlements of radical German Pietists in Iowa, USA, comprising seven villages. Calling themselves the Ebenezer Society or the Community of True Inspiration (German: die Gemeinde der wahren Inspiration), they first settled in New York state near Buffalo in what is now the Town of West Seneca. However, in order to live out their beliefs in more isolated surroundings they moved west, to east-central Iowa (near present-day Iowa City in 1856. They lived a communal life until the mid-1930s. Due to this, the Amanas are sometimes mistaken for Amish.

Amana Süd (South) Community

Amana West Community

Ananda a World Brotherhood Colony
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Brotherhood_Colonies)
Ananda (http://www.anandapaloalto.org/index.html)
World Brotherhood Colonies are an idea for cooperative spiritual living first promoted by Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian yogi and author of Autobiography of a Yogi. Beginning in 1932 (long before the intentional community movement of the late 1960s), and continuing to the end of his life in 1952, Yogananda urged young people to pool their resources, buy land, and build spiritual communities where they could live a life of "plain living and high thinking." Yogananda tried to establish World Brotherhood Colonies at his retreat centers in Southern California, but they eventually were turned into monasteries for monks and nuns of Self-Realization Fellowship.

Arcosanti
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti)
Arcosanti is an experimental town that began construction in 1970 in central Arizona, 70 mi (110 km) north of Phoenix, at an elevation of 3,732 feet (1,130 meters). Architect Paolo Soler, using a concept he calls arcology, started the town to demonstrate how urban conditions could be improved while minimizing the destructive impact on the earth.

Arden
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden,_Delaware)
Arden is a village and art colony in New Castle County, Delaware, in the United States, founded in 1900 as a radical Georgist single-tax community by sculptor Frank Stephens and architect Will Price. The village occupies about 160 acres, with half kept as open land. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the village is 439.[1]  In 1973, the entire village was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Atarashiki-mura
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atarashiki-mura)
Atarashiki-mura (新しき村?,  "New Village", is a Japanese intentional community founded by the author, artist and philosopher Saneatsu Mushanokōji.
It was originally founded in 1918 in Hyūga, in the mountains of Miyazaki Prefecture in Kyūshū, but in 1939 they were warned that much of their land was about to be submerged by the construction of a dam, so they searched for a new home and found 10 hectares in Moroyama-mach, Iruma-gun, Saitama Prefecture. A few members remain at Hyūga to this day, but they are still to a certain extent dependent on the Saitama community and support from "external members".

Aurora
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora,_Oregon)
Aurora is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States. It was founded as a religious commune in 1856 by Dr. William Keil who named the settlement after his daughter.

Auroville (City of Dawn)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auroville)
Auroville (City of Dawn) is an "experimental" township in Viluppuram district  in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, near Puducherry in South India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa (also known as "The Mother") and designed by architect Roger Anger. As stated in Alfassa's first public message about the township, "Auroville is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity."

Barkai
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkai)
Barkai (Hebrew: בַּרְקַאי, lit. Morning Star) is an Israeli kibbutz in the Menashe Regional Council on the western side of Wadi Ara. Its main industries include thermal and acoustic insulation, lamination and packaging: the Polyon Barkai factory; and agriculture: cattle, poultry, avocado and field crops.

Bellbunya Eco Retreat and Sustainable Community
Bellbunya is owned by an environmental charity and set up as a small eco-village on 40 acres. We have organic food gardens, wildlife corridors, a creek and lagoon, a conference hall and restaurant and accommodation for 30 guests. The Centre is run on 100% renewable energy.

Bishop Hill
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Hill,_Illinois#History)
The village was founded in 1846 by Swedish immigrants affiliated with the Pietist movement, led by Erik Jansson. Prior to founding the Bishop Hill Colony, Jansson preached to his followers in Sweden about what he considered to be the abominations of the Lutheran Church and emphasized the doctrine that the faithful were without sin. As Jansson's ideas became more radical, he began to lose support from many of his sympathizers and was forced to leave Sweden in the midst of growing persecution. Jansson had previously sent Olof Olsson, a trusted follower, as an emissary to the United States to find a suitable location where the Janssonists could set up a utopian community centered around their religious beliefs. According to Jansson, this community would become the "New Jerusalem", and their beliefs would soon spread across the world. As a result, 1400 colonists emigrated from Sweden to their new home in western Illinois.

Brentwood
Wikipedia
Brentwood was initially founded as the colony of Modern Times. The colony was established on March 21, 1851, on 750 acres (300 ha) of land on Long Island by Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews. It was later renamed Brentwood after the town of Brentwood, Essex, in England.

Brights Grove
Wikipedia
Brights Grove was the site of Canada's first commune.  In 1829, Brights Grove was established along the model of Robert Owen's New Lanark, Scotland project by Henry Jones (1776–1852). The colony was named 'Maxwell' and was a short-lived project. However, it has been argued by Canadian socialist historian Ian McKay that "[t]he builders of the short-lived colony named Maxwell that Jones planted near Sarnia may well have been the first people in North America to call themselves 'socialists'."

Brithdir Mawr
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brithdir_Mawr)
Brithdir Mawr is an Intentional Community in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The name is Welsh for "big dotty place".

Brook Farm Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_Farm)
Brook Farm, also called the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education[4] or the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education,[5]  was a utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s. It was founded by former Unitarian minister George Ripley and his wife Sophia Ripley at the Ellis Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts (9 miles outside of downtown Boston) in 1841 and was inspired in part by the ideals of Transcendentalism, a religious and cultural philosophy based in New England.
Today, part of the land on which Brook Farm stood is a nature reserve and part is used by the Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries.

Bunkerville
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkerville,_Nevada#History)
Bunkerville was settled in 1877 by Mormon pioneers from Utah. It is named after Edward Bunker, who was already a seasoned pioneer settler before he came to Bunkerville, having pioneered the settlement at Santa Clara, Utah.[2]
Bunker, on his own initiative but with permission from Brigham Young, moved his large polygamous family 25 miles (40 km) southwest to Bunkerville after the settlers in Santa Clara had failed to live the communitarian United Order. The residents of Bunkerville, so named by Brigham Young, established a new communal effort, sharing the work and the fruits of their work, with all land being held in common. The communal experiment ended in 1880.

Burley
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burley,_Washington)
Burley was established in 1898 as a cooperative socialist colony,[1]  by a group called the Co-operative Brotherhood , an offshoot of the Brotherhood of the Co-operative Commonwealth that had established Equality colony  elsewhere in Washington state in the previous year. Both communities were part of an attempt to plant socialist colonies in Washington in order to convert first the state, and then the entire nation, to socialism.[2]

Burned-over district
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned-over_district)
The burned-over district was the religious scene in the western and central regions of New York in the early 19th century, where religious revivals and Pentecostal movements of the Second Great Awakening took place.[1]
The term was coined by Charles Grandison Finney who in his 1876 book Autobiography of Charles G. Finneyreferred to a "burnt district" to denote an area in central and western New York State during the Second Great Awakening. The name was inspired by the notion that the area had been so heavily evangelized as to have no "fuel" (unconverted population) left over to "burn" (convert).

Byrdcliffe Colony
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byrdcliffe_Colony)
The Byrdcliffe Colony, also called the Byrdliffe Arts Colony or Byrdcliffe Historic District, was founded in 1902 near Woodstock, New York by Jane and Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead [2] and colleagues,Bolton Brown (artist) and Hervey White (writer). The Arts and Crafts Movement arose in the late nineteenth century in reaction to the dehumanizing monotony and standardization of industrial production. It was created as an experiment in utopian living inspired by the arts and crafts movement.[3]  It remains focused on the development of artistic vision.

Cobb Hill Cohousing Community
Cobb Hill Cohousing (http://www.cobbhill.org/)
Cobb Hill is a co-housing community comprised of people learning to live lightly on the earth while forming a connection to a community, the land, and a working farm. We strive to live joyously while remaining conscious of our impact on the health of the planet and our responsibilities to those who share life upon it. Twenty-three households are clustered on a hillside in rural Vermont. Our community includes a working organic farm, environmentally built houses, and numerous farm-related enterprises (Cobb Hill Cheese, maple syrup, beekeeping, Cobb Hill sheep, etc.).

Croton (Pythagoras: 530 BC))
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras)
On his arrival in Croton, he quickly attained extensive influence, and many people began to follow him. Later biographers tell fantastical stories of the effects of his eloquent speech in leading the people of Croton to abandon their luxurious and corrupt way of life and devote themselves to the purer system which he came to introduce.[37]
His followers established a select brotherhood or club for the purpose of pursuing the religious and ascetic practices developed by their master. The accounts agree that what was done and taught among the members was kept a profound secret. The esoteric teachings may have concerned the secret religious doctrines and usages, which were undoubtedly prominent in the Pythagorean system, and may have been connected with the worship of Apollo.[38] Temperance of all kinds seems to have been strictly urged. There is disagreement among the biographers as to whether Pythagoras forbade all animal food,[39] or only certain types.[40] The club was in practice at once "a philosophical school, a religious brotherhood, and a political association.

Crystal Waters Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Waters,_Queensland)
Crystal Waters (also known as Crystal Waters Permaculture Village and Crystal Waters Ecovillage) is a village situated in the Sunshine Coast hinterland of Queensland, Australia.[2]
In 1995, the village of Crystal Waters received a United Nations world habitat award for its "pioneering work in demonstrating new ways of low impact, sustainable living". In 1998, the village of Crystal Waters was included in the "World's Best Practices" database of the United Nations organization.

Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_rabbit_ecovillage)
Dancing Rabbit (http://www.dancingrabbit.org/)
Dancing Rabbit is an intentional community in the pioneering stage. The community was formed in 1997 with the purchase of 280 acres (1.1 km2) of land in North East Missouri by the Dancing Rabbit Land Trust. Its current population is around 60 people with the intention of growing to a small, locally self-reliant town of 500 to 1000 residents. All members of Dancing Rabbit agree to abide by ecological covenants [1] and sustainability guidelines.[2] Residents are responsible for their own finances, food, housing, and other necessities. There are a number of co-ops [3] residents can elect to be a part of. These co-ops include services for vehicles, food, health care, showers, phone, and internet. The town includes egalitarian communities, cohousing, and individual households.

Denison University Homestead
The Homestead at Denison University (Granville, Ohio) is a student-run intentional community  with a focus on environmental sustainability and voluntary simplicity. Founded in 1977 under the guiding vision of biology professor Dr. Robert W. Alrutz, it is an evolving experiment in learning through living. Membership is limited to twelve full-time students of Denison University per semester. These students (referred to as “Homesteaders” or “Homies”) represent a variety of ages, backgrounds, and academic majors.

Drop City
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_City)
Drop City was an artists' community that formed in southern Colorado in 1965. Abandoned by the early 1970s, it became known as the first rural "hippie commune"

Duck Creek
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadeau_View_Institute)
The Meadeau View Institute was a conservative constitutionalist [vague] organization that operated in Duck Creek, Utah, from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.[1]  The institute was notable for seeking to build a Utopian community of alternative-lifestyle conservatives in Southern Utah. The community collapsed in 1994 due to financial problems incident to the loss of property in an accidental explosion and fire.

East Wind Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Wind_Community)East Wind Community (http://eastwind.org/index.php)
East Wind Community is an intentional community located in the Missouri Ozarks. Founded in 1973, it is a secular and democratic community in which members hold all communities assets in common. Each member is also given food, shelter, clothing, medical care, education, and a monthly stipend.[1] All major decisions are made by direct democratic processes and most positions in the community are elected.

Ephrata Cloister
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephrata_Cloister)
Ephrata is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States, 38 miles (61 km) south east of Harrisburg and about 57 miles (92 km) west by north of Philadelphia. It is named after Ephrath, a biblical town in what is now Israel.  Ephrata's sister city is Eberbach, Germany, the city where its founders originated. In its early history, Ephrata was a pleasure resort and an agricultural community. It is also home to the famous wooden pillow.

Equality Colony
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_Colony)
The Brotherhood of the Co-operative Commonwealth, later to be known as Equality Colony, was a United States socialis colony founded in Skagit County ,Washington, in the year 1897. It was meant to serve as a model which would convert the rest of Washington and later the entire United States to socialism.

Estero
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estero,_Florida#History)
Estero was established and incorporated by the followers of Dr. Cyrus Reed Teed, who proposed a theory that we live on the inside of the Earth's outer skin, and that celestial bodies are all contained inside the hollow Earth. This theory, which he called Koreshan Unity, drew followers to purchase and occupy a 320-acre (1.3 km2) tract in 1894. They were business-oriented and lived communally, prospering enough to found its own political party ("The Progressive Liberty Party") and incorporate the town in 1904 as Estero. The 1908 death of Dr. Teed (who claimed to be immortal) was a critical blow to the group's faith, whose membership dwindled into the 1960s. The Foundation remains as "The College of Life Foundation," which contributed (for example) at least $25,000 to the Gulf Shore Playhouse in or around 2007.[7]  The Koreshans' original tract is now owned by Florida as the Koreshan State Historic Site .

Federation of Damanhur
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_Damanhur)
The Federation Of Damanhur, often called simply Damanhur, is a commune, ecovillage, and spiritual community situated in the Piedmon of northern Italy about 30 miles (50 km) north of the city of Turin. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the Chiusella Valley, bordering on the Gran Paradiso National Park. The community has its own constitution and currency, the Credito.

Fellowship Farm Cooperative Association
The Fellowship Farm Cooperative Association was a Utopian anarchist community in the Stelton section of Piscataway Township, New Jersey that was started in 1912.[1]

Findhorn Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findhorn_Foundation)
The Findhorn Foundation is a Scottish charitable trust registered in 1972, formed by the spiritual community at the Findhorn Ecovillage, one of the largest intentional communities in Britain.[1  It has been home to thousands of residents from more than 40 countries. The Foundation runs various educational programmes for the Findhorn community; it also houses about 40 community businesses such as the Findhorn Press and an alternative medicine centre.

Fordlândia
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On Henry Ford's 150th Birthday, a Look Inside His Failed Utopia
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia)
Ford intended to use Fordlândia to provide his company with a source of rubber for the tires on Ford cars, avoiding the dependence on British (Malayan) rubber. The land was hilly, rocky and infertile. None of Ford's managers had the requisite knowledge of tropical agriculture. The rubber trees, packed closely together in plantations, as opposed to being widely spaced in the jungle, were easy prey for tree blight, sauva ants, lace bugs, red spiders, and leaf caterpillars,[2] a problem absent from the Asian rubber plantations, where transplanted Amazonian rubber trees faced no natural predators. The mostly indigenous workers on the plantations, given unfamiliar food such as hamburgers and forced to live in American-style housing, disliked the way they were treated—they had to wear ID badges, and work through the middle of the day under the tropical sun—and would often refuse to work. In 1930 the native workers revolted against the managers, many of whom fled into the jungle for a few days until the Brazilian Armyarrived and the revolt ended.[3]
Ford forbade alcohol, women and tobacco within the town, including inside the workers' own homes. The inhabitants circumvented this prohibition by paddling out to merchant riverboats moored beyond town jurisdiction[4] and a settlement was established five miles upstream on the "Island of Innocence" with bars, nightclubs and brothels.
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Fountain Grove Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_Grove)
Fountain Grove was a utopian colony founded near Santa Rosa, California  by Thomas Lake Harris in 1875.[1]  Most of its settlers were followers of Harris's Brotherhood of the New Life and moved with Harris from their previous colony at Brocton, New York. The round barn that was part of the winery still dominates the area.

Freeland
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeland,_Washington)
The town received its name based on its origins as a socialist commune in the early 1900s—. Literally, in the eyes of its founders, the land of the town was to be free for all people. Some of the first settlers were veterans of a prior experiment in socialism, the nearby Equality Colony.

Freetown Christiania
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania)
"Christiania, also known as Freetown Christiania (Danish: Fristaden Christiania) is a self-proclaimed autonomous neighbourhood of about 850 residents, covering 34 hectares (84 acres) in the borough of Christianshavn  in the Danish capital Copenhagen."

French Icarian Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarians#Corning.2C_Iowa)
In 1852, Icarians purchased land in Adams County, Iowa to form a new permanent settlement, and Icarians began settling southwest of Queen City in 1853. In 1860, when the Nauvoo colony went bankrupt, many members of the community moved to the new site in Iowa. The settlers arrived with nothing but their skills along with $20,000 of debt.

Gan Shmuel
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gan_Shmuel)
In 1895 the founders of the town of Hadera planted Gan Shmuel, a grove of etrogs. The lands of Gan Shmuel were transferred to theJewish National Fund  and a small group of pioneers took upon itself to tend to the orchards live in a multi-story house in 1913. The group was recognized as a kibbutz in 1921. The first stable group formed in 1923 and its members were considered the founders of Gan Shmuel. The kibbutz buildings were designed by Arieh Sharon in keeping with the principles of Bauhaus architecture. [2]

Goetheanum
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goetheanum)
The Goetheanum, located in Dornach (near Base,  Switzerlan, is the world center for the anthroposophical movement. Named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the center includes two performance halls (1500 seats), gallery and lecture spaces, a library, a bookstore, and administrative spaces for the Anthroposophical Society; neighboring buildings house the Society's research and educational facilities. Steiner designed approximately 12-13 other built structures, principally residences in and around Dornach.

Germantown Colony
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germantown_Colony_and_Museum)
Germantown Colony and Museum is an historical preservation project north of Minden in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, USA. It was among three sites in Louisiana founded by former members of the Utopian Movement called the Harmony Society in the early 19th century.[2]

Halcyon Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halcyon,_California)
Halcyon, California is an unincorporated community  of approximately 125 acres (0.5 km²) in San Luis Obispo County, California, located just beyond the southern border of the city of Arroyo Grande. It was founded in 1898 as a Theosophist intentional community and is the home and headquarters of a religious organization, The Temple of the People (not to be confused with Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple.

Heavens Gate
Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religion doomsday cult based in San Diego, California, founded in the early 1970s and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985).[1]  On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group who had committed mass suicide in order to reach what they believed was an alien space craft following the Comet Hale–Bopp, which was at its brightest.

Hitler's Nazi Utopia
Nazism Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia
On the one hand, Nazism was clearly a utopian movement. It wanted to create a perfect world for the pure Aryan race, devoid of degenerating forces. In a sense, it was idealistic. It had an ideal view of humanity and wanted to realize it, in part by way of the destruction of the less than ideal human beings and of those who were considered enemies of and dangerous to the better humans. Nazism had a peculiar kind of love for humanity. It’s love for humanity implied the destruction of those who abase, bring down and pollute it. Humanity was of course defined in a very particular way: true humans were the Aryans. The love for Aryans rather than hatred of Jews and other inferior beings was the prime motive. Love was what mattered, not hate, sadism, rancor or revenge. The future mattered, not our origins. People’s origins and race mattered only to the extent that racial mixing would threaten the future existence of the better race. And although there was blind and violent rage, the Nazi killings were in general rational, dutiful, professional, organized, and framed in terms of self-defense against degenerating forces.

Holy City
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_City,_California)
Holy City is an unincorporated community in Santa Clara County, California. Once a Utopian community, it is arguably now a ghost town.

Home Colony
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home,_Washington)
When Home was plotted in 1901 it had increased in size to 217 acres (0.88 km2) and had become home to anarchists, communists, food faddists, freethinkers, nudists, and others who did not fit in with mainstream society. Elbert Hubbard, anarchist Emma Goldman, and national communist leader William Z. Foster visited and gave lectures.

Home of Truth
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_of_Truth,_Utah)
Home of Truth is a ghost town located in San Juan County in southeastern Utah, United States. The settlement was a short-lived utopian religious intentional community in the 1930s, led by a spiritualist Marie Ogden. The Home of Truth started in 1933 with an initial population of 22 people, but grew to around 100 at its peak.

Hóng Xiùquán's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
A convert to Christianity, Hong Xiuquan led an army that controlled much of southern China, with about 30 million people. The rebel Kingdom announced social reforms and the replacement of Confucianism and Chinese folk religion by a form of Christianity, holding that Hong Xiuquan was the younger brother of Jesus. The Taiping areas were besieged by Qing forces throughout most of the rebellion. The Qing government defeated the rebellion with the eventual aid of French and British forces. The conflict was one of the deadliest wars in history, with about 25 million killed, mainly civilians.

Hutterite King Colony Ranch
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutterite_Colony)
Hutterites (German: Hutterer) are a communal branch of Anabaptists who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Radical Reformation of the 16th century.
The mid-2004 location and number of the world's 483 Hutterite colonies: [16] (347) - Dariusleut (142): Alberta (109); Saskatchewan  (31); British Columbia  (2) - Schmiedeleut  (105): Manitoba (105) - Lehrerleut  (99): Alberta (69); Saskatchewan (30) United States (134) - Schmiedeleut (69): South Dakota (53); Minnesota  (9); North Dakota  (7) - Lehrerleut (44): Montana (44) - Dariusleut (21): Montana (15); Washington (5); Oregon (1) Japan (1) - Dariusleut (1) Nigeria (1) - Schmiedeleut (1)

Intercourse Amish settlement
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch_Country)
Intercourse, Pennsylvania (population: 1,274 as of 2010 census) is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in Leacock Township, Lancaster County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, 10 miles (16 km)east of Lancaster on Pennsylvania Route 340. As with the nearby towns of Bird-in-Hand, Blue Ball, and Paradise.

Jesus People USA Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_People_USA)
Jesus People USA (JPUSA) is a Christian intentional community of 400 people [1] in Uptown, on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.  It was founded in 1972,[2] coming out of Jesus People Milwaukee in the Jesus Movement, and is the largest of the few remaining communes from that movement. In 1989, JPUSA joined the Evangelical Covenant Church as a member congregation, and currently has eight pastors credentialed with the ECC. The community organizes the annual Cornerstone Festival.

Jonestown Community (Jonestown 2)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown)
Jonestown was the informal name for the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, an intentional community in northwestern Guyana  formed by the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones. It became internationally notorious when on November 18, 1978; 918 people died in the settlement, in a nearby airstrip, and in Georgetown. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations.
A total of 909 Temple members died in Jonestown, all but two from apparent cyanide poisoning, in an event termed "revolutionary suicide" by Jones and some members on an audio tape of the event and in prior discussions. The poisonings in Jonestown followed the murder of five others by Temple members at a nearby Port Kaituma airstrip. The victims included United States Congressman Leo Ryan. Four other Temple members died in Georgetown at Jones' command.

Kaweah Colony
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaweah_Colony)
The Kaweah Colony was a utopian socialist community in central California founded in 1886. Located in the Sierra Nevada range, they lived near groves of giant sequoia trees. The colony officially disbanded in 1892. The establishment of Sequoia National Park in 1890 contributed to the colony's demise. Some of their descendants still reside in the area.

Ketura
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketura_(Kibbutz)
Ketura (Hebrew: קְטוּרָה) is a kibbutz north of Eilat in the Arabah rift valley, "Ketura" is the name of a hill nearby and the name of the second wife of Abraham (Genesis 25:1). It has approximately 130 members and 150 children (including adult offspring). About one third of the members are nativeIsraelis, with the rest coming from the United States, Canada, England, South Africa, Australia, Spain, France, Latin America, Switzerland , the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the former Soviet Union.

Kfar Masaryk
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Masaryk)
Kfar Masaryk (Hebrew :כְּפַר מַסָּרִיק, lit. Masaryk Village) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the western Galilee near the Belus River south of Acre, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 598.
Despite opposition from the Jewish Agency  (who reasoned that the sandy soil could not support agriculture), Mishmar Zevulun was established on 29 November 1938 as the 29th tower and stockade settlement. In 1940 the kibbutz moved to its present site and was renamed Kfar Masaryk after Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first President of Czechoslovakia.

Kiryat Anavim
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryat_Anavim)
The land on which the kibbutz stands was purchased from the neighboring village of Abu Ghosh.  In 1912 the Abu Ghosh family sold thousands of dunams to Arthur Ruppin, who represented the Zionist movement. [3]   In 1919 a group of 25 pioneers from the Ukrainian town of Zhvanitz settled on the land, near a small spring called "Dilb." By the end of 1920, there were 200 pioneers on the kibbutz. theGordonia, group arrived from Galicia, Poland in 1936.

Koinonia Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koinonia_Farm)
The farm was founded in 1942 by two couples, Clarence and Florence Jordan and Martin and Mabel England, as a “demonstration plot for the Kingdom of God.”[1]  For them, this meant following the example of the first Christian communities as described in the Acts of the Apostles, amid the poverty and racism of the rural South. The name Koinonia is an ancient Greek word, used often in the New Testament, meaning deep fellowship. Koinonia members divested themselves of personal wealth and joined a "common purse" economic system. They envisioned an interracial community where blacks and whites could live and work together in a spirit of partnership.

Kommune Niederkaufungen e.V.
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommune_Niederkaufungen)
Kommune Niederkaufungen web site (http://www.kommune-niederkaufungen.de/)
Kommune Niederkaufungen is one of the largest intentional communities in Germany. Founded in 1986, it is an egalitarian, left-wing, income-sharing commune  with consensus decision-making . It is situated in a complex of former farm buildings in the historic centre of the village of Niederkaufungen (Kaufungen, seven kilometres from the city of Kassel (Hessen). It has grown from 15 founder members to 62 adults and nearly 20 children and teenagers (2009). It is a member of "Kommuja", the German network of political communes and egalitarian communitie.

Kiryas Joel Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryas_Joel,_New_York)
Kiryas Joel (also known as Kiryas Yoy'l, "Kiryas Yo'el" or KJ) (Yiddish: קרית יואל (Kiryas Yoyel), Hebrew : קרית יואל (Kiryat Yoel), "Town of Joel") is a village within the town of Monroe n Orange County, New York, United States. The great majority of its residents are Hasidic Jews who strictly observe the Torah and its commandments, and belong to the worldwide Satmar Hasidic dynasty.

Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony
Kuznetsk Basin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznetsk_Basin)
The Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony was a Soviet experiment in workers' control during the New Economic Policy, based in Kuzbass, Siberia.

Lafayette Morehouse
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_Morehouse)
Lafayette Morehouse, previously known as More University, is an experimental community, or commune, established in 1968, on Purson Lane, Lafayette, Californai.[1] The community is known by residents in the area as "the purple people", a nickname derived from the community's characteristic use of the color purple on their buildings and on some of their vehicles. "We tell people that all the houses here are purple so that there is no mistake that one has changed realities should they wander onto our property"

Latter Day Saint Community of Christ
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latter_Day_Saint_movement)
The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement or LDS restorationist movement) is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian primitivist movement founded byJoseph Smith in the late 1820s. Collectively, these churches have over 14 million members. The vast majority of members belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), with their predominant theology being Mormonism. The LDS Church self-identifies as Christian.[1] A minority of Latter Day Saint adherents, such as members of the Community of Christ, believe in traditional Protestant theology, and have distanced themselves from some of the distinctive doctrines of Mormonism. Other breakaway groups include theRemnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints which support lineal succession of leadership of Joseph Smith's descendants; and the more controversial Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, who defend the practice of polygamy.

La Réunion Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Reunion_(Dallas)
La Réunion was a socialist utopian  community formed in 1855 by French, Belgian, and Swiss colonists near the forks of the Trinity River in Texas, USA. The Reunion Tower in downtown Dallas is about three miles east of the colony site. The founders of the community were inspired by the utopian thought of the French philosopher François Marie Charles Fourier. Followers of Fourier established 29 similar colonies in various parts of the United States during the 19th century.[citation needed]  In 1860 the declining colony was incorporated into the expanding city of Dallas.

Las Gaviotas Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaviotas)
Gaviotas is an ecovillage located in the llanos of the Colombian department of Vichada. It was founded in 1971 by Paolo Lugari who assembled a group of engineers and scientists in an attempt to create a mode of sustainable living in one of the least hospitable political and geographical climates in South America.

Life and Labor Commune
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_and_Labor_Commune)
The Life and Labor Commune was a Tolstoyan agricultural commune founded in 1921 and disbanded as a state run collective farm in 1937. The commune was founded near Moscow but was later resettled in central Siberia, not far from Novokuznetsk. [1]  At its peak, it reportedly had as many as 1,000 participants.[2]  Throughout its existence the members of the commune were persecuted by the Bolsheviks, both for refusing to enlist or support their war efforts as well as for organizing themselves communally outside of the approved state structure.

Llano Del Rio
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llano_Del_Rio)
Llano Del Rio (officially organized as The Llano Del Rio Company of Nevada) was a commune (or "colony") located in what is now Llano, California east of Palmdale in the Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County . The charter was issued October 15, 1915 by socialist political candidate Job Harriman, after he had failed his bid to become the mayor of Los Angeles. The Llano Del Rio Colony settled in the southern edge of the Mojave Desert along Highway 138 near what is now 165th Street East, in the alluvial plain that spread out to the north from the San Gabriel Mountains . The colony took advantage of water from Big Rock Creek, an intermittent stream that flowed from the San Gabriel Mountains. Several structures were constructed using local granite boulders and lumber, including a hotel, meeting house, and water storage tank. There was also a small open aqueduct made of granite cobbles and cement. The remnants of the built features are still visible at the site, which has been abandoned for decades.

Lomaland
Wikiipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomaland)
Lomaland was a Theosophical commune located in Point Loma in San Diego, California from 1900 to 1942. Theosophical Society leader Katherine Tingley founded it in 1900 as a school, cultural center, and residential facility for her followers. The American headquarters of the Theosophical Society Pasadena was also situated there. The facility was important to the growing city of San Diego for its cultural offerings, and it left a lasting legacy in its campus (now Point Loma Nazarene University  hich still retains many of the unique architectural features of the original Lomaland. The residents of Lomaland also transformed their Point Loma neighborhood by planting so many trees, orchards and shrubs that the neighborhood is now known as the "Wooded Area ".

Los Horcones
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Horcones)
Los Horcones is an intentional community located about 40 miles from Hermosillo, Mexico.[1]  It has described itself "as the only true Walden Two  community in existence".[2]  The members of Los Horcones use techniques based on behavioral science to shape their own and each other's behaviors. They use those behavior-shaping techniques in politically coordinated ways and they do so in order to continuously improve themselves and their culture. They are striving to build a culture "based on cooperation, sharing, non-violence, equality and ecological sustainability."[3]

Lotan
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotan,_Israel)
Lotan (Hebrew: לוֹטָן) is a Reform kibbutz in the Arabah  Valley in the Nege desert in southern Israel. It was founded in 1983 as Yahel Bet by twenty Israeli and twenty American youths. The current name derives from "one of the sons of Seir".[1]  (Genesis 36:20) (a descendant of Esau, who lived in Edom nearby) The kibbutz currently serves as location for eco-tourism  and birdwatching for tourists. The kibbutz is also a member of the Global EcoVillage network,[2]  and offers seminars and workshops on earth building, watsu, and creative ecology. Its members strive to balance an ecological approach to living in Israel through recycling, permaculture , and other projects.

Ma'abarot
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27abarot,_Israel)
Ma'abarot was the third kibbutz established by the Kibbutz Artzi federation and is located in the Sharon Plain, near the old road from Petah Tikva to Haifa. It was founded by graduates of the left-wing Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in Romania who organized themselves as a settlement group, and immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1924.

Merom Golan
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merom_Golan)
Merom Golan (Hebrew: מְרוֹם גּוֹלָן) is an Israeli settlement and a kibbutz in the northern Golan Heights which lies in the municipal territory of the Golan Regional Council . The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.[1]

Miccosukee Land Cooperative
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miccosukee_Land_Co-op)
The Miccosukee Land Cooperative (MLC) is an intentional community  on 344 acres (140 hectares) in Northwest Florida, United States. It was formed in May 1973 by the Small Change Foundation led by James van Pelt ("Jeff"), Anna Coble van Pelt, and Chris and Carol Headley. The first members moved to the land in June 1974. The community consists of about 100 households and is governed by a "town council" consisting of representatives from "neighborhoods" within the community. Co-op members privately own their own homesteads, which range in size from 1 acre (0.4 hectares) to several acres each. Over 90 acres (nearly 40 hectares) are maintained as a nature preserve—the Common Land owned collectively and enjoyed by the entire membership. Both private and shared land is heavily restricted to maintain its natural state.

Millerite Community
Wikpedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millerites)
The Millerites were the followers of the teachings of William Miller who, in 1833, first shared publicly his belief in the coming Second Advent of Jesus Christ in roughly the year 1843.
Miller was a prosperous farmer, a Baptist lay preacher and student of the Bible, living in northern New York, in the region of that state which has come to be known as the Burned-over district. Through years of intensive study of symbolic meaning of the prophecies of Daniel and using the year-day method of prophetic interpretation, Miller became convinced that the date of Christ's Second Coming was revealed in Bible prophecy. In September 1822, Miller formally stated his conclusions in a twenty-point document, including article 15, "I believe that the second coming of Jesus Christ is near, even at the door, even within twenty-one years,—on or before 1843."[1] This document however, remained private for many years.

Nashoba Commune
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashoba_Commune)
Nashoba Commune was an experimental project of Fanny Wright, initiated in 1825 to educate and emancipate slaves. It was located in a 2,000-acre (8 km²) woodland on the side of present-day Germantown, Tennessee, a Memphis suburb, along the Wolf River. It was a small-scale test of her full-compensation emancipation plan in which no slaveholders would lose money for emancipating slaves. Instead, Wright proposed that, through a system of unified labor, the slaves would buy their freedom and then be transported to the independent settlements of Liberia and Haiti.

Neve Shalom
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neve_Shalom)
Neve Shalom (Hebrew: נְוֵה שָׁלוֹם, lit. Oasis of Peace), also known as Wāħat as-Salām (Arabic: واحة السلام‎)[1]  is a cooperative village jointly founded by Israeli Jews and Israeli Palestinian Arabs in an attempt to show that the two peoples can live side by side peacefully, as well as to conduct educational work for peace, equality and understanding between the two peoples. The village is located on one of the two Latrun  hilltops overlooking the Ayalon Valley and lies midway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Falling under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council, in 2011 it had a population of 236.[3]  As of 2006, it has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize four times.[4]

New Buffalo Commune
New Buffalo Commune (http://www.newbuffalocenter.com/Contact.html)
New Buffalo Center is located on the site of the original New Buffalo Commune in Arroyo
Hondo, NM. Minutes from the town of Taos, the Rio Grande Gorge, and the majestic Sangre de Cristo mountains, its stunning location, fertile land, and genuine sense of spiritual well-being has attracted myriad residents and visitors. Artists, writers, musicians, healers, agriculturalists, archeologists, spiritual leaders, workers for social change, and, of course, the so-called “Taos hippies,” have long been a part of the vibrant social scene here at New Buffalo.

New Creation Christian Community
In the early years of the Jesus Fellowship, a residential Christian community was founded for its growing membership. Initially a large Anglican rectory in Bugbrooke was purchased and renamed “New Creation Hall”. Several members of the Jesus Fellowship moved in and it became the first centre of a community lifestyle. By 1979, several other large houses in the surrounding area were purchased and “New Creation Christian Community,”  as the entire community was named, was established, with some 350 residents.[23]  Today there are around 60 New Creation Christian Community houses in the UK with about 700 people – about 25 per cent of the total membership of the Jesus Fellowship – living in them.

New Lanark Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Lanark)
New Lanark is a village on the River Clyde ,approximately 1.4 miles (2.2 kilometres) from Lanark, in South Lanarkshire, and some 40 km southeast of Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded in 1786 by David Dale, who built cotton mills and housing for the mill workers. Dale built the mills there in a brief partnership with the English inventor and entrepreneur Richard Arkwright to take advantage of the water power provided by the only waterfalls on the River Clyde. Under the ownership of a partnership that included Dale's son-in-law, Robert Owen, a Welsh philanthropist and social reformer, New Lanark became a successful business and an epitome of utopian socialism as well as an early example of a planned settlement and so an important milestone in the historical development of urban planning.

New Llano
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Llano,_Louisiana)
Originally Stables, Louisiana, the town was renamed when 200 members of the Socialist commune Llano Del Rio Cooperative Colony in California relocated to this site in 1917, giving the town its present name. It continued to function as a socialist commune with citizens pooling and sharing resources and wealth until 1939.

Nimbin Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbin,_New_South_Wales)
Nimbin is notable for the prominence of its environmental initiatives such as permaculture, sustainability,  self-sufficiency as well as the cannabis counterculture. Writer Austin Pick described his initial impressions of the village this way: "It is as if a smoky avenue of Amsterdam has been placed in the middle of the mountains behind frontier-style building facades. ... Nimbin is a strange place indeed."[2]
Nimbin has been described in literature and mainstream media as 'the drug capital of Australia', 'a social experiment' and 'an escapist sub-culture'. Nimbin has become an icon in Australian cultural history with many of the values first introduced there by the counterculture becoming part of modern Australian culture.[3]

North American Phalanx (NAP)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Phalanx)
The North American Phalanx (NAP) was a secular Utopian community  located in Colts Neck Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey.  The NAP was based on the ideas of Charles Fourier, and lasted from 1843 to 1855-1856.[1]

Octagon City
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octagon_City)
Octagon City was a failed intentional community that was founded in 1856 about six miles (10 km) south of Humboldt, Kansas near the Neosho River. It was created by the Vegetarian Kansas Emigration Company, headed by prominent vegetarian Henry Clubb  and entrepreneurs Charles DeWolfe and John McLaurin. The original intent was to build Vegetarian Colony on the south side of the Neosho River for vegetarians only, but investor interest in a non-vegetarian moral community was much higher and so the decision was made to build Octagon City on the north side of the Neosho River to make the entire project sustainable. Members of Octagon City were under oath to educate their children and uphold a moral lifestyle.

Old Economy Village
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Economy_Village)
Old Economy Village is a historic settlement in Ambridge, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. Administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, it lies on the banks of the Ohio River and is surrounded by downtown Ambridge. The Village is the last of three settlements established by the Harmony Society in the United States (another in Pennsylvania and one in Indiana. Established in 1824, it was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1966 under the name of "Old Economy."[1]

Orange Twin Conservation Community
The Orange Twin Conservation Community  (OTCC) is a limited liability company (LLC) formed to create a pedestrian-based eco-village and preserve open space on more than 150 acres (0.61 km2) of land located five miles (8 km) north of downtown Athens, Georgia. The eco-village is still in the planning and development stage (plans).

Orania Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orania,_Northern_Cape)
Orania is a South African town that is located along the Orange River in the arid Karoo region of its Northern Cape  province. Orania is unique in that population is almost entirely Afrikaner. The aim of the town is to create a stronghold for Afrikaans and the Afrikaner identity by keeping their language and culture alive. Anyone who defines themselves as an Afrikaner and identifies with Afrikaner ethnicity is welcome in Orania.[2]  In 2004 Orania introduced its own currency, the Ora. Seventy businesses are located in Orania

Plymouth Colony
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Colony)
Founded by a group of Separatists and Anglicans, who together later came to be known as the Pilgrims, Plymouth Colony was, along with Jamestown and other settlements in Virginia, one of the earliest successful colonies to be founded by the English in North America, and the first sizable permanent English settlement in the New England. Aided by Squanto, a Native American of the Patuxet people, the colony was able to establish a treaty with Chief Massasoit which helped to ensure the colony's success. It played a central role in King Philip's War, one of the earliest of the Indian Wars. Ultimately, the colony was merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony nd other territories in 1691 to form the Province of Massachusetts Bay .

Oneida Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_Society)
The Oneida Community was a religious commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in Oneida, New York. The community believed that Jesus had already returned in AD 70, making it possible for them to bring about Jesus's millennial kingdom themselves, and be free of sin and perfect in this world, not just Heaven (a belief calledPerfectionism). The Oneida Community practiced Communalism (in the sense of communal property and possessions),Complex Marriage, Male Continence, Mutual Criticism and Ascending Fellowship. There were smaller Noyesian communities in Wallingford, Connecticut; Newark, New Jersey; Putney and Cambridge, Vermont.[1] The community's original 87 members grew to 172 by February 1850, 208 by 1852, and 306 by 1878. The branches were closed in 1854 except for the Wallingford branch, which operated until devastated by a tornado in 1878. The Oneida Community dissolved in 1881, and eventually became the giant silverware company Oneida Limited.[2]

Qumran (Essenes: 134-104 BCE)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essenes#Location)
Some modern scholars and archaeologists have argued that Essenes inhabited the settlement at Qumran, a plateau in the Judean Desert along the Dead Sea, citing Pliny the Elder in support, and giving credence that the Dead Sea Scrolls are the product of the Essenes. This view, though not yet conclusively proven, has come to dominate the scholarly discussion and public perception of the Essenes.

Rainbow Valley Community
Rainbow Valley Community (http://www.rainbowcommunity.org.nz/history.htm)
In June of 1974 Lynn and Jim met up with Peter and Mary Jane in Golden Bay. They were shown Glovers Flat whose owner was moving to Australia and had put it on the market only days before.
103 hectares were purchased for NZ $25,000. The few fences would not contain cattle or sheep and the only existing structure was a rather old three-sided barn. About 26 hectares of flat land were accessible by rough road. Another 37 hectares lay on Roses Flat across the Anatoki River, much of it in bush and gorse. The other 40-hectare block was steep and forested.

Riverside Community
The community had its beginnings in 1941 when a group of Christian Pacifists agreed to adopt a way of life based on co-operation. They wanted to demonstrate that this was a practical alternative to the competitive ways of normal society which are a major contributor to wars. One of the group contributed 30 acres of farmland and orchard, in the Lower Moutere Valley, and some of them moved there to live. Several of the founding members were conscientious objectors to the compulsory military scheme during the Second World War. These men spent the war years on a prison farm in the Taranaki region while their wives and children moved to the small farm in Lower Moutere.
Today Riverside consists of 208 hectares of both flat and rolling hill land, with our main income coming from our dairy farm. We manage a growing number of secondary businesses including a café, centre, garage, pear orchard, organic gardens and shop. Income is shared and distributed depending on family size rather than occupation. Riverside assets are owned by the Trust and there is no private ownership of houses or cars. The community's general fund helps to meet basic needs such as health care, dental care, electricity and phone while other needs are subsidised like education and travel costs.

Redwood Valley (Jonestown 1)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_Valley)
One of the more dubious distinctions awarded Redwood Valley is it being the home of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple cult for a short time. The site was chosen because Jones believed that it was one of the few places in the world likely to survive a nuclear holocaust.

Rugby
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby,_Tennessee)
Founded in 1880 by English author Thomas Hughes, Rugby was built as an experimental utopian colony. While Hughes's experiment largely failed, a small community lingered at Rugby throughout the 20th century. In the 1960s, residents, friends and descendants of Rugby began restoring the original design and layout of the community, preserving surviving structures and reconstructing others. Rugby's Victorian architecture and picturesque setting have since made it a popular tourist attraction. In 1972, Rugby's historic area was listed under the name Rugby Colony on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district.

Ruskin, British Columbia
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruskin,_British_Columbia)
Ruskin is a rural and industrial area about 40 kilometres east of Vancouver, British Columbia  straddling the border between the suburban municipalities of Maple Ridge and Mission on the west bank of the lower Stave River.

Ruskin Colony at Tennessee City
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruskin_Colony)
The Ruskin Colony (or Ruskin Commonwealth Association) was a utopian socialist colony which existed near Tennessee City in Dickson County, Tennessee from 1894 to 1896. The colony moved to a slightly more permanent second settlement on an old farm five miles north from 1896 to 1899, and saw another brief incarnation near Waycross, in southern Georgia, from 1899 until it finally dissolved in 1901. Its regional location within the Southern United States set it apart from many other similar utopian projects of the era. At its high point, the population was around 250. The colony was named after John Ruskin, the English socialist writer. A cave on the colony's second property in Dickson County still carries his name.

Sand Hill Eco- Community
Sand Hill Farm (http://www.sandhillfarm.org/index.php)
We envision Sandhill Farm as a stable, progressive, fluid and vibrant community thriving in abundance. We prioritize building and maintaining the health of our members, systems and facilities. We hope to integrate more alternative energy, natural building, empowered health care and self sufficiency in our lives. Sandhill Farm, in cooperation with our friends and neighbors, will continue to expand and network a culture of sustainable living in northeastern Missouri.

Shaker Alfred Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Maine#History)
A Shaker religious community once thrived in Alfred. In 1783, members of the Shaker Church settled on the hill near Massabesic (now Shaker) Pond. Others dubbed them the "Merry Dancers," because of their ecstatic worship. "They were," as historian George J. Varney writes, "at this time fanatical in religion and intemperate in their indulgences."

Shaker Canterbury Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury_Shaker_Village)
Canterbury Shaker Village is a historic site and museum in Canterbury, New Hampshire , United States. It was one of a number of Shaker communities founded in the 19th century.
It is one of the most intact and authentic surviving Shaker community sites, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993.

Shaker Enfield, CT Community
In 1793, a historic Shaker village, one of nineteen scattered from Maine to Kentucky, was established in the town. The Utopian religious sect practiced celibate, communal living, and is today renowned for its simple architecture  and furniture. Membership eventually dwindled, however, and the village disbanded. The property has since been redeveloped by the Enfield Correctional Institution, still located on Shaker Road.

Shaker Enfield, NH Community
The Shakers, or United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, settled on the site in 1793.[4]  The site was divided into three smaller organizations, or families: the Church Family, the North Family and the Second (or South) Family. At its peak, there were approximately 300 Shakers living on the site. The site covered over 3,000 acres (1,200 ha).

Shaker Fruitlands Community
Fruitlands was a Utopian agrarian commune established in Harvard, Massachusetts by Amos Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane in the 1840s, based on Transcendentalist principles. An account of its less-than-successful activities can be found in Alcott's daughter Louisa May Alcott's Transcendental Wild Oats.

Shaker Groveland Community
Wikipeda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groveland,_New_York#History)
The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, known as theShakers, is a religious sect originally thought to be a development of the Religious Society of Friends. Founded upon the teachings of Ann Lee, Shakers today are mostly known for their cultural contributions (especially their style of music and furniture), and their model of equality of the sexes, which they institutionalized in their society in the 1780s

Shaker Hancock Community (West Pittsfield)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Shaker_Village)
Hancock Shaker Village is a National Historic Landmark District in Hancock, Massachusetts that was established by Shakers in 1791. It was the third of nineteen major Shaker villages established between 1783 and 1836 in New York, New England, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana  under the leadership of "Mother" Ann Lee and later Joseph Meacham and Lucy Wright.

Shaker Heights Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaker_Heights,_Ohio#History)
Shaker Heights was incorporated as a village in 1912. The name "Shaker Heights" has origins in two local sources. The community was laid out on land formerly owned by the North Union Community of the United Society of Believers, more commonly known as Shakers. "Heights" refers to the plateau east of Cleveland that rises sharply in elevation from 582 feet above sea level at the base of the Cedar Glen Parkway rising to 950 feet above sea level in nearby Cleveland Heights ; Shaker Heights' elevation is 1050 feet above sea level.

Shaker Jerusalem Community
Tyringham was home to a Shaker Village, called "Jerusalem," which lay just south of the town center.

Shaker Mount Lebanon Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Lebanon_Shaker_Society)
Mount Lebanon Shaker Society, also known as New Lebanon Shaker Society, was a communal settlement of Shakers in New Lebanon, New York. The early Shaker Ministry, including Joseph Meacham and Lucy Wright, the architects of Shakers' gender-balanced government, lived there.

Shakertown of Pleasant Hill
In December 1806, forty-four converts of legal age signed a covenant agreeing to mutual support and the common ownership of property. They began living together on the 140 acres (57 ha) farm of Elisha Thomas, whose lands formed the nucleus of the Pleasant Hill Shaker village. Additional converts and property were quickly added, with the community occupying 4,369 acres (1,768 ha). By 1812 three communal families—East, Center, and West—had been formed, and a fourth, North, was established as a "gathering family" for prospective converts. On June 2, 1814, 128 Believers bound themselves together in a more formal covenant, which established the community in the pattern of the Shaker Ministry's village at New Lebanon, New York.

Shaker Sabbathday Lake Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbathday_Lake,_Maine)
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village is a Shaker village near New Gloucester and Poland, Maine, in the United States.  It is the last active Shaker community, with only three members as of 2009.

Shaker Shirley Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley,_Massachusetts)
The remains of a Shaker village are located on the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center prison grounds.

Shaker South Union Community
Shaker Museum at South Union Village (http://www.shakermuseum.com/)
This Shaker community was established by the Shakers in 1807 and closed in 1922

Shaker Watervliet Community
Watervliet Shaker Historic District, in Colonie, New York, is the site of the first Shaker community. It was established in 1776.
The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, known as theShakers, is a religious sect originally thought to be a development of the Religious Society of Friends. Founded upon the teachings of Ann Lee, Shakers today are mostly known for their cultural contributions (especially their style of music and furniture), and their model of equality of the sexes, which they institutionalized in their society in the 1780s

Shaker West Union Community @ Busseron Creek & Shaker Praire Ditch
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Union_(Busro),_Indiana)
West Union (Busro) is an abandoned Shaker community in Busseron Township, northwestern Knox County, Indiana, about fifteen miles (24 km) north of Vincennes. The settlement was inhabited by the Shakers (United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing) from 1811 to 1827. Though short-lived, West Union was the westernmost Shaker settlement.

Shaker Whitewater Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_Shaker_Settlement)
The Whitewater Shaker Village (http://www.whitewatervillage.org/)
The Whitewater Shaker Settlement (also known as White Water Shaker Village) is a former Shaker settlement near New Haven in Crosby Township, Hamilton County, Ohio,  United States. Established in 1824 and closed in 1916,[citation needed it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 as a historic district.

Shamir, Israel
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir,_Israel)
The kibbutz was established in 1944 by a small group of mainly Romanian immigrants. The first-generation settlers were members of the Marxis Zionis youth movement Hashomer Hatzair.
Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War the UN established border between Israel and Syria was drawn to run only a few hundred yards east of the kibbutz.

Sointula
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sointula,_British_Columbia)
The name Sointula (literally the place of chord means "Place of Harmony" in the Finnish language. A group of Finnish  settlers founded the village in 1901 after rowing north from Nanaimo. They planned to set up a utopian socialist society known as the Kalevan Kansa, and wrote to visionary Matti Kurikka in Finland to lead the new community. They were looking for a way out of Dunsmuir's mines in Nanaimo. It was a physically hard life and a devastating fire almost brought the fledgling community to its knees. Financial difficulties continued to plague the group. After they worked for free for two years on the Capilano Bridge project, the Kalevan Kansa was disbanded. Many of the community members remained on the island as have their descendants.

Soul City
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_City,_North_Carolina)
Soul City, North Carolina is a planned community first proposed in 1969 by Floyd McKissick , a civil rights leader and director of the Congress of Racial Equality. Funded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, (HUD) as one of thirteen model city project under the Urban Growth and New Community Development Act,  it was located on 5000 acres (20 km²) in Warren Count, near Manson.

St George
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George,_Utah#History)
St. George was founded as a cotton mission in 1861 under the direction of Brigham Young, the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons or LDS Church)— part of a greater church effort to become self-sufficient. While the early settlers did manage to grow cotton, it was never produced at competitive market rates; consequently, cotton farming was eventually abandoned.

Stalin's Communist Utopia
http://www.jstor.org
Stalin's Vision of Utopia: The Future Communist Society by Geroid Tanquary Robinson

Stelle Community
Stelle Community (http://www.stellecommunity.com/)
Stelle began as an intentional community in 1973 based on the book, “The Ultimate Frontier.” In 1982 Stelle became an open community. Over the years, many residents have built aspects of sustainable living, such as green technologies and organic food production, into their lifestyles. Stelle residents comprise a diverse group although the common threads of responsible, conscious, and courteous living are visible.

Sunward Cohousing
Sunward Cohousing (http://www.sunward.org/)
We are a group of people dedicated to creating a place where resources are shared, lives are simplified, the Earth is respected, diversity is welcomed, children play and learn together in safety, and living in community with neighbors comes naturally.

Svanholm Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svanholm)
Svanholm is a country estate and former manor 55 kilometres (34 mi) west of Copenhagen, Denmark.  In 1978 an association of over 100 persons bought the estate to create Denmark's largest intentional community. The Svanholm Collective  grows its own food and was one of the pioneers of organic farming in Denmark. As of January 2006, membership consisted of 70 adults and 35 children aged 0 to 80, jointly owning around 400 hectares (988 acres) of farmland, park, and woodlands.

Swarta: Minnesota's Experimental City (you got to read this one)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Experimental_City)
The Minnesota Experimental City (MXC) was a proposed planned community  to be located in northern Minnesota (near Swatara in Aitkin County. Proposed and studied beginning in the 1960s, it would have been constructed as a public private partnership. In contrast with many of the model cities of the time, the MXC was to be experimental, trying new things rather than proposing to select from the best of the existing practice.
It was designed for 250,000 people over 60,000 acres (24,000 ha). In the plan, only 1/6 of the area would be paved, the remainder would be open space parks, wilderness, and farms. The plan called for the MXC to be partially enclosed by a geodesic dome. It would contain a branch of the University of Minnesota and 3M.
Among other proposed features were:
- a pedestrian zone, cars were to be parked on the edge with a people-mover connecting them to the center. An automated highway system  would connect the town with the outside world.
- no schools. The city itself would foster lifelong learning, with everyone both a student and teacher.
- waterless toilets

Tamera Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamera)
Tamera is a peace research village with the goal of becoming “a self-sufficient, sustainable and duplicatable communitarian model for nonviolent cooperation and cohabitation between humans, animals, nature, and Creation for a future of peace for all." [1] It is also often called a “healing biotope." [2]  Literally translated, "biotope" simply means a place where life lives. In Tamera, however, “healing biotope” is also described as a “greenhouse of trust,” “an acupuncture point of peace,” and “a self-sufficient future community." [2]  It is located on 335 acres (1.36 km2) in the Alentejo region of southwestern Portugal.

The Abode of the Message
The Abode (http://www.theabode.org/)
The Abode of the Message is the central residential community and learning center of the Sufi Order International, founded by Pir Vilayat Khan. It is the intention of the Abode of the Message as a community, to collectively embody spiritual awakening. Essential to this is clarity in our mutual commitment to practicing, in all situations, the Sufi teachings. Shared devotion to the ideals of Love, Harmony and Beauty, and to the specific transformational work whereby these ideals are progressively realized, provides the natural framework for mutual dedication and visionary collaboration.

The Farm (Tennessee)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farm_(Tennessee))
The Farm is an intentional community in Lewis County, Tennessee, near the town of Summertown, Tennessee based on principles of nonviolence and respect for the Earth. It was founded in 1971 by Stephen Gaski and 320 San Francisco hippies. The Farm is well known amongst hippies and other members of similar subcultures as well as by many vegetarians.The Farm now has approximately 175 residents.

The United States of America
http://www.utopianstates.com (http://www.utopianstates.com/)
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison held Utopian viewpoints.
George Washington stated that "Government, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a terrible master,".
Thomas Jefferson penned these immortal words: "We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness."
Thomas Jefferson got repealed all the direct federal taxes passed by the Federalists and boasted that ordinary Americans would never see a federal tax collector in their whole lives.
James Madison stated this: "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article in the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
In the Utopian States, the rights of individuals to have employment or an income stream is as fundamental as the right of individuals to accumulate wealth and not be taxed.

Tinker's Bubble
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker%27s_Bubble)
Tinker's Bubble is an intentional community located at Norton Covert in Little Norton near Yeovil in south Somerset, England. It was established in 1994 on 40 acres (160,000 m2) of land consisting of about 20 acres (81,000 m2) of woodland as well as orchards and pasture.

Twelve Tribes communities
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Tribes_communities)
The Twelve Tribes, formerly known as The Vine Christian Community Church,[6]  Northeast Kingdom Community Church,[1] The Messianic Communities,[1]  and the Community Apostolic Order[7]  is an international confederation of religious communities[8] founded by Gene Spriggs (now known as Yoneq) that sprang out of the Jesus Movement in 1972. In 1983, charges were brought against Charles "Eddie" Wiseman (an elder in the group) for misdemeanor  simple assault; this, combined with multiple child custody cases, formed the basis of a search warrant. On June 22, 1984 Vermont State Police and Vermont Social Rehabilitation Services seized 112 children;[2]  all were released the same day while the raid was ruled unconstitutional.[22]  Due to what the group perceived as massive misunderstanding of the events and concerns leading up to and surrounding the raid, they began formal relationships with their neighbors.[1]  Two months after the raid, the case against Wiseman fell apart after the main witness recanted, saying he was under duress from the anticult movement . The case was later dropped in 1985 after a judge ruled that Wiseman had been denied his right to a speedy trial. Eddie Wiseman's public defender, Jean Swantko, who had been present during the raid, later joined and married Wiseman.

Twin Oaks Community
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Oaks_Community,_Virginia)
Twin Oaks Community is an ecovillage and intentional community of about one hundred people [2]  living on 450 acres in Louisa County, Virginia.  It is a member of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities in 1967,[6]  it is one of the longest-enduring and largest secular intentional communities in North America.[4]  The community's basic values are cooperation, egalitarianism, non-violence, sustainability and income sharing.[7]

Waco Branch Davidian Community
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_Davidians)
From its inception in 1930, the reform movement inherited Adventism's apocalypticism , in that they believed themselves to be living in a time when Bible prophecies of a final divine judgment were coming to pass as a prelude to Christ's second coming. The name "Branch Davidian" is most widely known for the Waco Sieg of 1993 on their property (known as the Mount Carmel Center near Waco, Texas, by the ATF, FBI, and Texas National Guard , which resulted in the deaths of their leader, David Koresh, as well as 82 other Branch Davidians and four ATF agents. The siege lasted 51 days

Whiteway Colony
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteway_Colony)
Whiteway Colony is a residential community in the Cotswolds  in the parish of Miserden near Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK. The community was founded in 1898 by Tolstoyans and today has no spare land available with over sixty homes and one hundred and fifty colonists.[1]  At the beginning, private property was rejected and personal property shared; however, today the colonists' homes are privately owned and sold at market value.[2]  As the colony abandoned Tolstoy's philosophy it has been regarded by many, including Mohandas Gandhi who visited in 1909, as a failed Tolstoyan experiment.

Yad HaShmona
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yad_HaShmona)
Yad Hashmona was founded in 1971 by a small group of Finnish Christians. [1] It is named for eight Jewish refugees from Austria who escaped to Finland in 1938. The Finnish government, collaborating with the Nazis, handed the refugees over to the Gestapo  in 1942. Seven of them died in Auschwitz.  In 1978, a group of messianic Jews joined the moshav. Most of the members are now Israelis and the main spoken language is Hebrew. Due to intermarriage with Israeli Jews the moshav has become a center of Messianic Jews in Israel.

Yarrow Ecovillage
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrow_Ecovillage)
Yarrow Ecovillage (http://www.yarrowecovillage.ca/)
The Yarrow Ecovillage is an intentional community in Yarrow, British Columbia, Canada. Yarrow is a settlement of 3,000 population within the municipal boundaries of Chilliwack, British Columbia. The Ecovillage is a member-designed community that aims to achieve a more socially, ecologically and economically sustainable way of life. The Ecovillage's master plan for the 10-hectare (25-acre) former dairy farm, has three main legal entities: An 8-hectare (20-acre) organic farm , a 31-unit multigenerational cohousing community, and a mixed-use development with just under 2800 m2 (30,000 sf) of commercial space, a 17-unit senior cohousing community and a learning centre.

ZEGG Center for Experimental Cultural Design
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZEGG_(community)
ZEGG Forum (http://zegg-forum.org/)
It is an intentional community and an international seminar centre aiming to develop and implement practical models for a socially and ecologically sustainable way of living. To do this, it integrates personal growth work, the establishment of a cooperative and environment-friendly way of living and participation in political issues. In particular, ZEGG focuses on exploring innovative approaches to love and sexuality and it has developed and practices the use of tools for personal expression and trust building in large groups, including the ZEGG Forum.
ZEGG was founded in 1991 on a 37-acre site (15 hectares), where approx. 100 people now live, including 15 children and youth (as of 2011). The facilities on site include: an ecological sewage plan,  a CO2-neutral heating system, organic vegetable garden, some clay buildings, a meditation room, artists’ studios, workshops, a guesthouse, the "Children’s Building" and a range of other rooms and facilities for events and seminars.

Zihuatanejo Project
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zihuatanejo_Project)
The Zihuatanejo Project was a psychedelic training center and intentional community created during the beginning of the counterculture of the 1960s  by Timothy Leary  and Richard Alpert  under the umbrella of their nonprofit group, the International Federation for Internal Freedom (IFIF). The community was located in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico, and took up residence at the Hotel Catalina in the summers of 1962 and 1963.[1]

Shaker Watervliet Community Drying House
Panoramio / jamieribisi

Amana, Furniture shop
Panoramio / by niro

Meditation temple at Auroville
Panoramio / rajaraman sundaram

ZEGG Campus, Morgenmeditation
Panoramio / ZEGG

Branch Davidian Compound
Panoramio / http://www.panoramio.com/user/1726305?with_photo_id=10328033

Jonestown
Panoramio / Kristatos

Amish Farms N. of Intercourse, PA
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