Bangkok utopia : modern architecture and Buddhist felicities, 1910-1973 /

"'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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chua, Lawrence (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021]
Series:Spatial habitus (Series)
Subjects:
City planning > Thailand > Bangkok > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > Thailand > Bangkok.
Visionary architecture > Thailand > Bangkok.
Architecture > Political aspects > Thailand > Bangkok.
Écologie urbaine > Thaïlande > Bangkok.
Architecture visionnaire > Thaïlande > Bangkok.
Architecture > Aspect politique > Thaïlande > Bangkok.
ARCHITECTURE / History / General
Architecture > Political aspects
Buildings
City planning > Religious aspects > Buddhism
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Visionary architecture
Bangkok (Thailand) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Thailand > Bangkok
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A Historical and Cosmological Framework
  • Diagramming Utopian Nationalism: Nibbāna and the City of Willows
  • Modeling Queertopia
  • Planning Kammatopia: The Politics of Representation and the Funeral Pyre
  • Order and Odor: Sensuous Citizenship Formation and the Architecture of the Cinema
  • Concretopia: Material and Hierarchy in the Age of Sri Ariya
  • The Floating Paradise: Infrastructure Space and Vimānas of the Cold War Era
  • Epilogue.

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