Phalanstère

A phalanstère (or phalanstery) was a type of building designed for a self-contained utopian community, ideally consisting of 500–2,000 people working together for mutual benefit, and developed in the early 19th century by Charles Fourier.

He believed gender roles could progress by shaping them within community, more than by pursuits of sexual freedom or other Simonian concepts.

A few hours later your hot coffee and your eggs done to a nicety would appear on your table.In the 20th century, the architect Le Corbusier adapted the concept of the phalanstère when he designed the Unité d'Habitation, a self-contained commune, at Marseilles.

The residents of Mars live in a phalanstère in the Ecuadorian science fiction story A Voyage to Saturn by Francisco Campos Coello, published in 1900.

[6] In Henri Murger's 1851 work Scenes of Bohemian Life, the source of Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème and other musical works, Rodolphe meets a young man described as a phalansterian as he is scouring the streets of Paris to borrow five francs in order to entertain a young woman he plans to make his mistress.