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From Slaughterhouse to Utopia: Upton Sinclair’s Cities of Extraction and Imagination

What can Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and a failed utopian commune founded by Upton Sinclair teach us about city design? In this first episode of CityDesign, architect and urban designer Martin Felsen explores how cities are shaped by systems of power, labor, and idealism—and what that means for how we live today. From the industrial intensity of Chicago’s Stockyards to Sinclair’s short-lived experiment in communal living, this video dives into two radically different models of urban life: one built to extract, the other built to imagine. In this video, you'll learn about: How cities function as machines—and what they take from us; The origins of the assembly line and industrial clustering; What Sinclair’s Helicon Home Colony reveals about the challenges of utopia; Why design is key to building more connected, resilient cities in a rapidly changing world. CityDesign is a channel about how we shape cities—and how cities shape us. Subscribe for stories, concepts, and case studies that reimagine how we live, work, and design the future. Subscribe for more videos on: urban design, architecture, city planning, utopian communities, infrastructure, housing, public space, sustainability, communal living, industrial urbanism, and the future of cities. Tags #CityDesign #UptonSinclair #UrbanDesign #Utopia #Architecture #PublicSpace #IndustrialCities #UrbanHistory #BetterCities #HeliconHome #TheJungle #urbanplanning About me Martin Felsen, FAIA, co-founded UrbanLab, an architecture and urban design firm in Chicago. Martin is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a Professor in the Illinois Institute of Technology’s (IIT, aka, Illinois Tech) College of Architecture. UrbanLab’s work synthesizes diverse design methodologies and technical innovations drawn equally from architecture and its complex urban and natural contexts. Built work to date includes houses, housing, mixed-use buildings, installations, and urban infrastructural projects. UrbanLab has received many design awards for projects across scales of production.