Communitas (book)

Communitas

First edition
Author	Percival Goodman, Paul Goodman
Subject	Urban planning
Publisher	University of Chicago Press
Publication date	1947
Pages	141
OCLC	710701

Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life is a 1947 book on community and city planning by Percival and Paul Goodman. Presented as an illustrated primer on how city planning affects socioeconomic order and citizens' empowerment to better their communities, the book reviews historical and modern approaches to urban planning before proposing three of the Goodmans' own provocative community paradigms.

The brothers worked on Communitas through the early 1940s based on an unsuccessful 1939 World's Fair proposal. The University of Chicago-published book was not well known until it was revised and re-released alongside Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd in a 1960 edition by Vintage Books. Communitas became known as a major work of urban planning and influenced historical, anthropological, and educational activists.