In a class I am taking called, “Cultural Geography and Renaissance Literature,” we read an article based off of a lecture Foucault gave, titled “Of Other Spaces.” In it, M.F. makes a distinction between utopias and the real world equivalent, his hereto termed “heterotopias.” If I can explain it in as few words as possible, a hetertopia is a societal structure that exists to enact the idea of utopia, but is ultimately held back by being too tied to the “real” world. Does that make sense? No. Good. Here’s a real world example.