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 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.�
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