Overview
- Offers diverse perspectives on urban space and place
- Brings together international scholars on global cities
- Celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Calvino’s influential text
Part of the book series: Literary Urban Studies (LIURS)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Cities & Theory
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Cities & Cities
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About this book
Reviews
“Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities is a miraculously fascinating work, a postmodern tour-de-force that fires the imagination of the reader and, with each re-reading, discloses new spaces and new ways of seeing. This collection of essays does justice to Calvino’s masterpiece, as its contributors widely explore the novel’s seemingly infinite territories, combining theoretical sophistication with close readings. The result is a fascinating study of both Calvino and the urban imagination that will be welcome by all who find themselves enchanted in cities.” (Robert T. Tally Jr., Professor of English, Texas State University, USA)
“Built environment professionals and researchers, social scientists, and literary enthusiasts and scholars will appreciate this excellent interdisciplinary engagement with Calvino’s Invisible Cities, the concreteness and elusiveness of urban life, and the order and disorder of cities.” (Vinit Mukhija, Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs)“A lively, fresh, and wide-ranging encounter with Calvino’s wonderful Invisible Cities. A great read that brings the thinking, writing, and imagination of Calvino’s book into new conversations with urban theory and politics, revealing its power to illuminate urban life and to inform creative writing and pedagogy.” (Colin McFarlane, Professor of Urban Geography, Durham University)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Benjamin Linder is Assistant Editor at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: "Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination
Editors: Benjamin Linder
Series Title: Literary Urban Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13048-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13047-2Published: 09 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13050-2Published: 10 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13048-9Published: 08 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-7888
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7896
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 359
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Contemporary Literature, European Literature, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Urban History