Potential retirees travel around and shop for their ideal community, just the way they shopped for the right college 40 or 50 years ago.

"Bridgehampton is the ideal community for the school we want to run, since it is centrally located," he said.

Utopia is an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system.

"Is an ideal 'community' made up of virtual identities a utopia?"

Unlike Plato, Brand wouldn't exile artists from his ideal community.

Nan, we're trying to model diversity here, to represent an ideal community.

Is that your idea of the ideal community?

It's an ideal community for couples purchasing their first home.

He called this system for an ideal community a "Phalanx".