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Elle Griffin
Salt Lake City
Elle’s Substack
Essays
  • Saltaire—and other deleted scenes from "Let Cities Build Utopia"
  • LET CITIES BUILD UTOPIA
  • Decentralize America: The case for cities that don't need Washington
  • An indigenous nation just built a better city than California Forever
  • Stop idolizing Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Próspera
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Utopian thinker

Elle Griffin writes The Elysian, a weekly newsletter thinking through a better future (Mondays) and utopian fiction bringing it to life (Fridays). She is currently studying 2000+ years of utopian thought and is exploring how we can better capitalism, democracy, and the systems that support humanity.

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Author and artist

Elle Griffin is inspired by art in all forms! She spends her spare time reading and writing fantasy novels. She loves wandering museums, attending the theater, and being moved to tears by a Broadway musical. She adores singing and dancing ballet and is currently getting into drawing and ceramics.

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