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Imaginary Cities : A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between /
For as long as humans have gathered in cities, those cities have had their shining-or shadowy-counterparts. Imaginary cities, potential cities, future cities, perfect cities. It is as if the city itself, its inescapable gritty reality and elbow-to-elbow nature, demands we call into being some altern...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t The Men of a Million Lies, or How We Imagine the World -- |t Plato's Cinema -- |t The Deceptions of Memory -- |t Cartography and the Canvas of White Spaces -- |t Faust the Imperial Architect -- |t The Dialectics of Inspiration -- |t In Morphia Veritas -- |t Here be Cities -- |t Dentata -- |t Robinsonade -- |t Where the Wild Things Are -- |t No North, No South, No East, No West -- |t The Tower -- |t The Sun King -- |t Proteus -- |t Perfecting the Shipwreck -- |t The Sublime, Twinned With the Abyss -- |t Apocalypse Then -- |t The Urbacides -- |t Houses of Vice and Virtue -- |t New Jerusalem, or N evertown -- |t The Ancient Modernists -- |t The Map is the Real -- |t Blueprinting Eternity -- |t Babel -- |t The Living Ruins -- |t The Return of Mammon -- |t City of Angels -- |t Discovering the Diagonal -- |t The Lightning Rod -- |t Skyscraper Mania -- |t Elevators Through the Stratosphere -- |t The Golem -- |t Vertical Suburbs -- |t Sanctifying the Secular -- |t Lift Off -- |t It Came From the Depths -- |t The Evaporating Cities -- |t A Glowing Future -- |t The Alchemical Cities -- |t Cities Made Without Hands -- |t Foundations -- |t The Wrath of God -- |t The Drowned World -- |t Seasteading -- |t The Seven Invisible Cities of Gold -- |t The Abiding Desire for No Place -- |t The Thirteenth Hour -- |t Cockaigne -- |t The Biological City -- |t Possessed -- |t The Jungle -- |t The Glass Delusion -- |t The House of Constructions -- |t Books Versus Stone -- |t Remembering the Future -- |t The Mechanical Heart -- |t Further Sleepwalking -- |t Of Steam and Clockwork -- |t Micropolis -- |t Tomorrow Will Continue Forever -- |t Accelerator -- |t Pow -- |t Sealess Ships, Grounded Spacecraft and the Curse of the Genie -- |t Home is Where the Harm Is -- |t The Cinematic Dystopia of the Everyday -- |t In Love With Velocity -- |t On the Road -- |t The Crystal Palaces -- |t Plotting the Stars -- |t Flux Us -- |t The Megalomania of Cells -- |t Revolution! Revolution! Revolution! -- |t Releasing the Golem -- |t The Turk -- |t The Pit and the Pendulum -- |t The Gothic Trojan Horse -- |t Neo-Neanderthals -- |t The All-Seeing I -- |t In Defense of Caliban -- |t The Gaze -- |t The Blind Watchmakers -- |t Guest List -- |t The Magic Kingdom -- |t The Last Laugh -- |t Waste -- |t No Man's City -- |t Conquest -- |t Of Wealth and Taste -- |t Pandemonium -- |t Nothing Ever Happens -- |t Flotsam and Jetsam -- |t The Fall -- |t The Wounds of Possibility -- |t Terraforms -- |t About the Author |
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| 520 | |a For as long as humans have gathered in cities, those cities have had their shining-or shadowy-counterparts. Imaginary cities, potential cities, future cities, perfect cities. It is as if the city itself, its inescapable gritty reality and elbow-to-elbow nature, demands we call into being some alternative, yearned-for better place. This book is about those cities. It's neither a history of grand plans nor a literary exploration of the utopian impulse, but rather something different, hybrid, idiosyncratic. It's a magpie's book, full of characters and incidents and ideas drawn from cities real and imagined around the globe and throughout history. Thomas More's allegorical island shares space with Soviet mega-planning; Marco Polo links up with James Joyce's meticulously imagined Dublin; the medieval land of Cockaigne meets the hopeful future of Star Trek. With Darran Anderson as our guide, we find common themes and recurring dreams, tied to the seemingly ineluctable problems of our actual cities, of poverty and exclusion and waste and destruction. And that's where Imaginary Cities becomes more than a mere-if ecstatically entertaining-intellectual exercise: for, as Anderson says, "If a city can be imagined into being, it can be re-imagined." Every architect, philosopher, artist, writer, planner, or citizen who dreams up an imaginary city offers lessons for our real ones; harnessing those flights of hopeful fancy can help us improve the streets where we live. Though it shares DNA with books as disparate as Calvino's Invisible Cities and Jane Jacobs's Death and Life of Great American Cities, there's no other book quite like Imaginary Cities. After reading it, you'll walk the streets of your city-real or imagined-with fresh eyes. | ||
| 538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
| 546 | |a In English. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Imaginary places in art. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Imaginary places in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Imaginary places |x Religious aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Imaginary places. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY / General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 653 | |a dream cities, urban areas, urbanism, cultural studies, culture, utopia, history, international research, soviet union, dublin, ireland, poverty, exclusion, imaginary places, religion, memory, cartography, architect, inspirational, jerusalem, babel, skyscraper, city of gold, revolution, science fiction, literature, fictional spaces, metropolis, creative nonfiction, entertaining, engaging. | ||
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