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A Place for Utopia: Urban Designs from South Asia (Global South Asia)
Smriti Srinivas
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Description for A Place for Utopia: Urban Designs from South Asia (Global South Asia)
Paperback. Series: Global South Asia. Num Pages: 224 pages, 61 b&w illus, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FK; AMVD; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 330.
Exploring 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 ... Read more
Exploring 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Global South Asia
Condition
New
Weight
329g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295997384
SKU
V9780295997384
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About Smriti Srinivas
Smriti Srinivas is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City; In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City, and Memory in a Global Religious Movement; and The Mouths of People, The Voice of God: Buddhists and Muslims in the Frontier ... Read more
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