The village of Arden, is an art colony in New Castle County, Delaware, United States, founded in 1900 as a unbiased Georgist single-tax community by sculptor Frank Stephens and architect Will Price. The village occupies nearly 160 acres, with half kept as right to use land. According to the 2010 census, the population of the village is 439. In 1973, the entire village was listed upon the National Register of Historic Places.

Two against villages of similar size were founded upon Georgist principles, Ardentown, in 1922, and Ardencroft, in 1950. In 2003, they were also listed upon the NRHP as the Ardens Historic District. Many Ardenites, as the villagers of Arden are called, consider themselves to be “close-knit, nature-loving, liberal, tolerant, free-spirited, artistic, intellectual, even ex-hippie”.

Arden was founded in 1900 by sculptor Frank Stephens and architect Will Price, based on ideas such as Henry George’s single-tax, William Morris’s Arts and Crafts principles, and Peter Kropotkin’s theories of community. Philanthropist Joseph Fels funded the project.

The single-tax movement, popular in the U.S. and other countries from the 1890s until the 1930s, is based upon the belief that the best pretentiousness to lift government child maintenance was to tax forlorn the value of unimproved home and the public-created value, like roads, added to the land. The tax, based on a systematized assessment, would recover both the value of natural resources and public investment for the public, while not impeding labor and capital from profiting from their efforts. Followers of Henry George’s philosophy of economics created Arden as an experiment in the single-tax idea after a failed attempt to espouse Georgism in the entire let in of Delaware in the late 19th century.