在西方关于城市化的论述中，经典的印度文本和瓦斯托普鲁沙·曼荼罗并不经常被讨论，尽管其中许多内容早于通常教授的欧洲著作。这本书揭示了一些被遗忘的概念，从而使世界各地的建筑学、景观学和城市规划专业的学生能够接触到讨论较少的经典印度城镇组织理念。通过对印度部分寺庙城镇的案例研究，回顾了这些概念在当今时代的共鸣。此外，作者强调了经典印度曼荼罗的形式抽象，并将社会学的论述移植到了擅长社会生态的跨学科设计思维中。创造性的解释提供了一个前提，可以开始修改当前实践的经典模型，以根据不断变化的气候影响一个地方的城市化和生态。
Mandala Urbanism, Landscape, and Ecology
Classic Indian texts and Vaastupurusha Mandala are not often discussed in the western discourse on urbanism, even while much of these predate the commonly taught European writings. This book sheds light on some of those forgotten concepts, thus making the lesser discussed classic Indian town organization ideas accessible to architecture, landscape, and urban planning students worldwide. The resonance of these concepts in present times are reviewed through case studies of select Hindu temple towns in India. Furthermore, the author underscores the formal abstraction of the classic Indian Mandala and transplants the discourse from sociology to socio-ecologically adept trans-disciplinary design thinking. The creative interpretations offer a premise to start revising classic models for current practice to influence the urbanism and ecology of a place in accordance with the changing climate.
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