Phalanstère
（重定向自Phalanstery）
![Perspective view of the urban area of Fourier's Phalanstère. Rural area is not shown in the drawing.](/Images/godic/202502/02/Phalanstère3727.jpg")
![North American Phalanx building in Monmouth County, New Jersey, inspired by Fourier's concept](/Images/godic/202502/02/Phalanxary_colt_nj3728.jpg")
![The Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles, France, designed by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier.](/Images/godic/202502/02/Unite_d'Habitation,_Marseille3728.jpg")
A phalanstère (or Phalanstery) was a type of building designed for a utopian community and developed in the early 19th century by Charles Fourier. Fourier named these self-contained communities, ideally consisting of 500–2000 people working together for mutual benefit, after the phalanx, the basic military unit in ancient Greece.