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100			_aSrinivas, Smriti
245			_aPlace for utopia : urban designs from South Asia
260			_bOrient Blackswan, _c2015 _aNew Delhi :
300			_axi, 207 p. ; _bill., (b & w), maps. _c24 cm
365			_b1325.00 _cINR _d00
490			_aGlobal South Asia
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_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.
650			_aCity planning, South Asia
650			_aCities and towns, South Asia
650			_aGeddes, Patrick -- 1854-1932
650			_aReligious Ethnology
650			_aSacred building
650			_aUtopian architecture
650			_aBotanical Garden
650			_aNew Buddhism
650			_aNeohinduism
650			_aVedanta
650			_aAdi Shankara
650			_aBaba, Sathya Sai
650			_aBuddhism
650			_a Kali
650			_aMaitreya Buddha Pyramid
650			_a Reiki
650			_aTantra
650			_aVedanta
650			_aPedestrian method; (Geddes)
650			_aZoological gardens
650			_aBangalore
650			_aChennai
650			_aShirdi
650			_a Theosophical Society
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