A New Land of the Free

"Atlas of Another America" lays out a plan for Freedomland, a fictional settlement for the United States.

Jeff Elkins

Featuring more than 200 drawings across 272 pages, Atlas of Another America by Keith Krumwiede (Park Books, 2017) outlines a plan for Freedomland, “a 21st-century settlement scheme for the American nation.” In his detailed work of fiction, the author explores the future of the American single-family house amidst “the remains of the suburban metropolis,” and includes drawings of the settlement’s grid and 128 clusters of duplicated house plans he calls “neighborhood farm estates.” Platz der Pope (above), for example, includes 20 houses with a combined total of 72,820 square feet.

Jeff Elkins

Jeff Elkins

Jeff Elkins

About the Author

Sara Johnson

Sara Johnson is the former associate editor, design news at ARCHITECT. Previously, she was a fellow at CityLab. Her work has also appeared in San Francisco, San Francisco Brides, California Brides, DCist, Patchwork Nation, and The Christian Science Monitor.

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