Introduction: Beyond the Threshold -- Influences and Evolution -- Communes and Intentional Living -- Hypermodern Liquid Life -- Patterns in Common -- Threshold People -- Revitalizing Community -- Narrative Arc -- Elders of Utopia -- One Place, Two Directions -- Oneida Extreme -- Fertile Soil for Celibacy -- What Can Go Wrong, Will -- Frontiers, Families, Communities -- Frontier, European Style -- Week in Someone's Utopia -- Last Days of the Counterculture -- Christiania's Urban Dilemma -- American Pastoral: The Farm -- City Mouse, Country House -- Ritual as Nostalgia -- Road to Utopia Isn't Paved -- Floating Spirituality -- Lifting of River Otter -- Power of Ritual -- Dream a Little Dream -- Arcosanti: A Postopia -- New Age to Green Age -- Ancient Concern -- Ecovillage Evolution -- Ecovillage at Ithaca -- Whole Village -- Alchemy Farm -- Sirius Community: Findhorn West -- Of Seniors and Cul-de-Sacs -- Communities in Motion -- Volunteer Experience -- Locating Habitat -- Communing with the Arts -- Novel Forms of Community -- Utopian End Game -- From a Yurt -- Individualism vs. Communalism -- Macro vs. Micro Authority -- Balancing Hypermodernity -- Next Generation -- Middle-Class White People -- Organization vs. ideas -- Nostalgia, the Enemy of Progress?