LEADER 03415oam 22006374a 450 001 9910972771703321 005 20240430175328.0 010 $a9780295806129 010 $a0295806125 024 7 $a10.1515/9780295806129 035 $a(CKB)3710000000498041 035 $a(EBL)4305963 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001570968 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16218241 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001570968 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12249639 035 $a(PQKB)11098687 035 $a(OCoLC)927405213 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_81441 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4305963 035 $a(Perlego)723808 035 $a(DE-B1597)725949 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780295806129 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000498041 100 $a20150313d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA Place for Utopia$eUrban Designs from South Asia /$fSmriti Srinivas 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aSeattle :$cUniversity of Washington Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ[2015] 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 225 0 $aGlobal South Asia 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780295994987 311 08$a0295994983 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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; Z 330 8 $aExploring several utopian imaginaries and practices, A Place for Utopia ties different times together from the early twentieth century to the present, the biographical and the anthropological, the cultural and the conjunctional, South Asia, Europe, and North America. It charts the valency of "utopia" for understanding designs for alternative, occluded, vernacular, or emergent urbanisms in the last hundred years. Central to the designs for utopia in this book are the themes of gardens, children, spiritual topographies, death, and hope. From the vitalist urban plans of the Scottish polymath Patrick Geddes in India to the Theosophical Society in Madras and the ways in which it provided a context for a novel South Indian garden design; from the visual, textual, and ritual designs of Californian Vedanta from the 1930s to the present; to the spatial transformations associated with post-1990s highways and rapid transit systems in Bangalore that are shaping an emerging "Indian New Age" of religious and somatic self-styling, Srinivas tells the story of contrapuntal histories, the contiguity of lives, and resonances between utopian worlds that are generative of designs for cultural alternatives and futures. 410 0$aGlobal South Asia 606 $aCities and towns$zSouth Asia 606 $aCity planning$zSouth Asia 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCities and towns 615 0$aCity planning 676 $a307.1/2160954 700 $aSrinivas$b Smriti$0440397 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972771703321 996 $aA Place for Utopia$94347863 997 $aUNINA