03415oam 22006374a 450 991097277170332120240430175328.09780295806129029580612510.1515/9780295806129(CKB)3710000000498041(EBL)4305963(SSID)ssj0001570968(PQKBManifestationID)16218241(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001570968(PQKBWorkID)12249639(PQKB)11098687(OCoLC)927405213(MdBmJHUP)musev2_81441(MiAaPQ)EBC4305963(Perlego)723808(DE-B1597)725949(DE-B1597)9780295806129(EXLCZ)99371000000049804120150313d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA Place for UtopiaUrban Designs from South Asia /Smriti Srinivas1st ed.Seattle :University of Washington Press,[2015]©[2015]1 online resource (221 p.)Global South AsiaDescription based upon print version of record.9780295994987 0295994983 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Placing Timelines; 1 Biocentric Eutopias in South Asia; 2 Ecotopias, Theosophy, and the South Indian City; 3 Utopian Settlements and Californian Vedanta; 4 Highways, Thresholds, and an Indian New Age; Conclusion: Designing and Dwelling in Place; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZExploring several utopian imaginaries and practices, A Place for Utopia ties different times together from the early twentieth 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. Global South AsiaCities and townsSouth AsiaCity planningSouth AsiaElectronic books. Cities and townsCity planning307.1/2160954Srinivas Smriti440397MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910972771703321A Place for Utopia4347863UNINA