LEADER 04715oam 2200553 450 001 9910554281603321 005 20230124200913.0 010 $a0-8248-8773-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780824887735 035 $a(CKB)4100000011674268 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6427521 035 $a(DE-B1597)570730 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780824887735 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011674268 100 $a20210604d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBangkok utopia $emodern architecture and Buddhist felicities, 1910-1973 /$fLawrence Chua 210 1$aHonolulu :$cUniversity of Hawai'i Press,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (292 pages) 225 1 $aSpatial habitus 311 $a0-8248-8460-4 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on Transcription -- $tCHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- $tCHAPTER TWO. A Historical and Cosmological Framework -- $tPART I. TOOLS -- $tCHAPTER THREE. Diagramming Utopian Nationalism: Nibb?na and the City of Willows -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. Modeling Queertopia -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. Planning Kammatopia: The Politics of Representation and the Funeral Pyre -- $tPART II. MATERIALS -- $tCHAPTER SIX. Order and Odor: Sensuous Citizenship Formation and the Architecture of the Cinema -- $tCHAPTER SEVEN. Concretopia: Material and Hierarchy in the Age of Sri Ariya -- $tPART III. SYSTEMS -- $tCHAPTER EIGHT. The Floating Paradise: Infrastructure Space and Vim?nas of the Cold War Era -- $tCHAPTER NINE. Epilogue -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $a?Utopia? is a word not often associated with the city of Bangkok, which is better known for its disorderly sprawl, overburdened roads, and stifling levels of pollution. Yet as early as 1782, when the city was officially founded on the banks of the Chao Phraya river as the home of the Chakri dynasty, its orientation was based on material and rhetorical considerations that alluded to ideal times and spaces. The construction of palaces, monastic complexes, walls, forts, and canals created a defensive network while symbolically locating the terrestrial realm of the king within the Theravada Buddhist cosmos. Into the twentieth century, pictorial, narrative, and built representations of utopia were critical to Bangkok?s transformation into a national capital and commercial entrepôt. But as older representations of the universe encountered modern architecture, building technologies, and urban planning, new images of an ideal society attempted to reconcile urban-based understandings of Buddhist liberation and felicitous states like nirvana with worldly models of political community like the nation-state.Bangkok Utopia outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a part of the world that has often been overlooked by researchers of both. It examines representations of utopia that developed in the city?as expressed in built forms as well as architectural drawings, building manuals, novels, poetry, and ecclesiastical murals?from its first general strike of migrant laborers in 1910 to the overthrow of the military dictatorship in 1973. Using Thai- and Chinese-language archival sources, the book demonstrates how the new spaces of the city became arenas for modern subject formation, utopian desires, political hegemony, and social unrest, arguing that the modern city was a space of antinomy?one able not only to sustain heterogeneous temporalities, but also to support conflicting world views within the urban landscape. By underscoring the paradoxical character of utopias and their formal narrative expressions of both hope and hegemony, Bangkok Utopia provides an innovative way to conceptualize the uneven economic development and fractured political conditions of contemporary global cities. 410 0$aSpatial habitus (Series) 606 $aCity planning$zThailand$zBangkok$xHistory 606 $aCity planning$zThailand$zBangkok$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism 607 $aBangkok (Thailand)$xBuildings, structures, etc 610 $aAsian architecture. 610 $aBuddhism. 610 $aThailand. 610 $apolitical science. 610 $asociology. 610 $aurban development. 615 0$aCity planning$xHistory. 615 0$aCity planning$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism. 676 $a307.121609593 700 $aChua$b Lawrence$01134205 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910554281603321 996 $aBangkok utopia$92815975 997 $aUNINA