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Elle Griffin
Salt Lake City
Elle’s Substack
Essays
  • Cities should own their land—like Vienna and Amsterdam
  • Disney World has more autonomy than any US city
  • San Francisco should be profitable—instead property owners are
  • Ebenezer Howard built a better city than the government
  • Cadbury built a city for workers—then gave it to them
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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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