'Eutopia Unbound' investigates the narrative construction of 'good places' in the late-modern era. The research uncovers four types of eutopias (the oasis, the capsule, the hub, and the bazaar) that continue to recur in our late-modern culture, in general, and in the projections of architects and urban planners, in particular.
A definition of 'eutopia' is developed starting from Foucault's notion of 'heterotopia' and Cassirer's theory of 'mythical thinking.' Mikhail Bakhtin's 'chronotope' is developed as a tool of analysis for 'cultural narratology' (Nünning).