Place for Utopia

Name: Place for Utopia
Brand: University of Washington Press
SKU: 9780295994987
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Urban Designs from South Asia

Автор: Smriti Srinivas

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Издател: University of Washington Press

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Exploring several utopian imaginaries and practices, "A Place for Utopia" ties different times toget...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Smriti Srinivas

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2015

страници

224

EAN

9780295994987

ISBN

0295994983

Enbook ID

09320988

Издател

University of Washington Press

Теглоt

464

Размери

236 x 160 x 24

Пълно описание

Exploring several utopian imaginaries and practices, "A Place for Utopia" ties different times together from the early 20th century to the present, the biographical and the anthropological, the cultural and the conjunctional, South Asia, Europe, and North America. It charts the valency of "utopia" for understanding designs for alternative, occluded, vernacular, or emergent urbanisms in the last hundred years. Central to the designs for utopia in this book are the themes of gardens, children, spiritual topographies, death, and hope. From the vitalist urban plans of the Scottish polymath Patrick Geddes in India to the Theosophical Society in Madras and the ways in which it provided a context for a novel South Indian garden design; from the visual, textual, and ritual designs of Californian Vedanta from the 1930s to the present; to the spatial transformations associated with post-1990s highways and rapid transit systems in Bangalore that are shaping an emerging "Indian New Age" of religious and somatic self-styling, Srinivas tells the story of contrapuntal histories, the contiguity of lives, and resonances between utopian worlds that are generative of designs for cultural alternatives and futures.?

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