"Invisible cities" and the urban imagination. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Benjamin Linder.
• Editors: Linder, Benjamin
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Invisible Cities and the Urban ImaginationPart I Cities & Theory2. Invisible Cities: Learning to Recognize Urban Society3. How to Map the Invisible4. Invisible Cities and the Work of Storying the Future5. Paris, Latour, and Calvino6. Queer Cities, Bodies & Desire: Reading Nicole Brossard alongside Italo Calvino7. On the Epistemic Ruins of ExistencePart II Cities & Cities8. 'The Void not Filled with Words": The Role of Venice in Invisible Cities9. A Tale of Two Ethnographers: Urban Anthropologists Read Invisible Cities10. Fifty Years of Soul City: Lessons of a Black Utopia11. Tirana Visible and Invisible12. The Lost City: The Pathos of Arab Jerusalem13. 'Submerging the City in Its Own Past': Tracing Glasgow's Architectures of Inhabitation14. Poetics of the Invisible, Poetics of Rubble15. Encountering Urban Mutualities and Indeterminacy with a Dar es Salaam Taxi Driver16. Reconstructing Memory and Desire in Bhaktapur, Nepal17. The Weight of the City: The Burden and Opportunities of Urban Villages18. Don't Nuisance the Relented City: Community Barriers and Urban 'Keepers' in the Haedo, Buenos AiresPart III Cities & Practice19. The Architect and Invisible Cities20. Visible Cities: Calvino in Performance21. The Pedagogy of Storytelling in Invisible Cities22. Invisible Smart Cities23. Peripheral Visions of Empire: Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajevo (Homage to Calvino)24. Imagining São Paulo with Invisible Cities25. Desires and Fears in the Invisible Eternal City26. Nyctopolis, the City of Darkness27. Epilogue: A Comparative Palimpsest of Urban Plenitude and Difference.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 853.914; Literature, Modern--20th century; Literary Criticism -- European -- General; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; History -- General; Literature: history & criticism; Cultural studies; History: specific events & topics; Literature, Modern--21st century; European literature; Comparative literature; Space; Culture; Cities and towns--History; Literary studies: from c 1900; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031130489
• Related ISBNs: 9783031130472
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