TY  - BOOK
AU  - Banerji,Shiben
TI  - Lineages of the global city: occult modernism and the spiritualization of democracy 
T2  - Lateral exchanges: architecture, urban development, and transnational practices
SN  - 9781477331408
AV  - HT166 .B36 2025
U1  - 307.1216 B36 2025 23/eng/20241221
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas
KW  - City planning
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Architecture and globalization
KW  - Occultism
KW  - Influence
KW  - Brotherliness
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Theosophy
KW  - Modern movement (Architecture)
KW  - Democracy and architecture
N1  - Includes  bibliographical references (pages 239-310) and index; Summoning global subjects -- Unifying science, 1905-1913 : De Bazel's World Capital and Andersen's World-Centre -- Financializing debt, 1927--1933 : the Otlet-Corbusier Cité Mondiale -- Saving empire, 1924-1933 : Besant's world-empire -- Conserving nature, 1920-1935 : Griffin's Castlecrag -- Globalizing democracy, 1938-1949 : Mahony's Magic of America
N2  - "In his new manuscript, Shiben Banerji examines the movement toward "global cities" in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly as an outcropping of occult philosophies like Theosophy that worked toward what practitioners called "universal brotherhood." Drawing on music, art, literature, and science, Theosophy imagined a path of self-improvement that would combat social and economic alienation. Accordingly, the view of the city that it helped foster was expansive: a city that could democratically encompass all genders, ethnicities, religions, and species. Banerji's study works to recuperate this forgotten chapter of urban design history through an examination of interlinked moments in the globalized pursuit of universal brotherhood"--
ER  -