Explore the hidden stories behind how we design the world we live in, and what we can learn when those designs fail. Season one, Utopian, follows Avery Trufelman on her quest to understand the perpetual search for the perfect place, the ways that search can go spectacularly wrong, and what comes after. Thursdays starting May 30th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
500 years ago, Thomas More wrote a novel about an idyllic society on an island, an island where private property had been abolished, families made their own clothes, and there were no lawyers.
He called the island utopia, which could.
Be traced to the greek roots.
Utopia meaning a good place or utopia.
No place.
Its a brilliant etymology, encapsulating somewhere that is perfect and does not exist.
But that hasnt stopped people from trying to create their own utopias.
I mean, its enticing, isnt it?
What if you could rewrite laws and change the government?
What if you could choose who gets to live in your world and whos in charge?
Throughout history, many people have tried to.
Turn their utopian dreams into reality.
Their motivations vary, but these projects share one thing in in one way or another, they all fail.
I'm Avery Trufelman, and I'm hosting a.
New podcast called Nice Try.
Our first season, Utopian, chronicles the perpetual search for a perfect place.
From the first permanent english settlement in North America to a modernist city in India and a racially integrated suburb in 1950s Pennsylvania, it's an ongoing story that spans centuries and continents.
All the children here, we lived in a bubble.
We thought this was the most wonderful thing.
We had everything at our fingertips about.