5.In Search of Nowhere
400m Public Realm
Auroville: This is the masterplan for Auroville, only a small part of which has been built. The scale is difficult to grasp; the circle is 400 m in radius but is clearly a lot smaller than the other 400 m plans. The white areas are buildings but many of them are huge and it is not clear how they were intended to be built.
In 1966, the General Assembly of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) passed a unanimous resolution supporting the building of utopia on the border of Puducherry and Chennai in India.73 It was the culmination of decades of work by Mirra ...
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