What's known as "cohousing" is today considered a more independent form of communal living, says Yvonne Daley, author of "Going Up the Country." The 1960s were a time of upheaval in the United States.

The history of American communes is one of imperfect people trying to make a perfect place. The physical layering of utopian life on particular plots of land is not so unusual in the United States.

Analyzes several American communes including the Twin Oaks community in Virginia based on BF Skinners theories of behaviorism an anarchists community in Maryland a network of loosely connected ...