Editing Intentional community (section)

== History ==
[[Ashrams]] are likely the earliest intentional communities, founded around 1500 BCE. [[Buddhist monasticism|Buddhist monasteries]] appeared around 500 BCE.<ref name=communalidea53>{{cite book |title=The Communal Idea in the 21st Century |date=28 September 2012 |publisher=[[Brill Publishers|BRILL]] |isbn=978-90-04-23625-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQozAQAAQBAJ |access-date=20 September 2021 |language=en |page=53 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> [[Pythagoras]] founded an intellectual vegetarian commune in about 525 BCE in southern Italy.<ref name=metcalf/> Hundreds of modern intentional communities were formed across Europe, North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand out of the intellectual foment of [[utopianism]].<ref name=metcalf>{{cite journal |last1=Metcalf |first1=Bill |title=Utopian Struggle: Preconceptions and Realities of Intentional Communities |journal=RCC Perspectives |date=2012 |issue=8 |pages=21–30 |jstor=26240431 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26240431 |access-date=30 August 2021 |issn=2190-5088}}</ref> Intentional communities exhibit the utopian ambition to create a better, more sustainable world for living.<ref name=metcalf/>