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Eurotopia: Intentional Communities and Ecovillages in Europe (2005 Edition) Volker Peters & Martin Stengle, Editors Volker Peters Verlag, 2005 Hb, 411 pp., 21 Euros (surface), 27 Euros (airmail)
This extensive and authoritative guide to the intentional communities of Europe and slightly beyond (reaching as far as Turkey and Israel) is to European communities what the Communities Directory is to North American communities and Diggers and Dreamers is to British communities. The latest edition of Eurotopia was published in 2004 in German (and reviewed briefly in the Winter '04 issue of Communities); now the English version is available. This new edition is much like its 2000/2001 predecessor, listing 311 communities in 24 countries. Germany leads the way with 95 listed communities, even though the editors, in the interest of geographical balance, left out some 50 embryonic and/or publicity-averse communities that appeared in the original German edition of the book. On the other end of the numeric spectrum, Bulgaria, Poland, Turkey, and Ukraine have one community listing apiece.
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