Bangkok utopia : (Record no. 735)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780824884604
International Standard Book Number 0824884604
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)1158791417
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number HT169.T52B3
Item number C48 2021
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Chua, Lawrence.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Bangkok utopia :
Remainder of title modern architecture and Buddhist felicities, 1910-1973 /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Lawrence Chua.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Honolulu :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. University of Hawaiʻi Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c2021.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xv, 274 p. :
Other physical details col. ill.
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Spatial habitus: making and meaning in Asia's architecture
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. '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 Chakri dynasty, its orientation was based on material and rhetorical considerations that alluded to ideal times and spaces. The construction of palaces, monastic complexes, walls, forts, and canals created a defensive network while symbolically locating the terrestrial realm of the king within the Theravada Buddhist cosmos. Into the twentieth century, pictorial, narrative, and built representations of utopia were critical to Bangkok's transformation into a national capital and commercial entrepôt. But as older representations of the universe encountered modern architecture, building technologies, and urban planning, new images of an ideal society attempted to reconcile urban-based understandings of Buddhist liberation and felicitous states like nirvana with worldly models of political community like the nation-state. Bangkok Utopia outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a part of the world that has often been overlooked by researchers of both. It examines representations of utopia that developed in the city-as expressed in built forms as well as architectural drawings, building manuals, novels, poetry, and ecclesiastical murals-from its first general strike of migrant laborers in 1910 to the overthrow of the military dictatorship in 1973. Using Thai- and Chinese-language archival sources, the book demonstrates how the new spaces of the city became arenas for modern subject formation, utopian desires, political hegemony, and social unrest, arguing that the modern city was a space of antinomy-one able not only to sustain heterogeneous temporalities, but also to support conflicting world views within the urban landscape. By underscoring the paradoxical character of utopias and their formal narrative expressions of both hope and hegemony, Bangkok Utopia provides an innovative way to conceptualize the uneven economic development and fractured political conditions of contemporary global cities.
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element City planning
Geographic subdivision Thailand
-- Bangkok
General subdivision History.
Topical term or geographic name entry element City planning
Geographic subdivision Thailand
-- Bangkok
General subdivision Religious aspects
-- Buddhism.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Urban ecology (Sociology)
Geographic subdivision Thailand
-- Bangkok.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Visionary architecture
Geographic subdivision Thailand
-- Bangkok.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Architecture
General subdivision Political aspects
Geographic subdivision Thailand
-- Bangkok.
651 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Bangkok (Thailand)
General subdivision Buildings, structures, etc.
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Spatial habitus (Series)
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