Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness : the Utopian Imagination in An Age of Urban Crisis.
This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works -- primarily urban planning and design theory and his...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Inner City of the Imagination: Utopia and the Ethical Charge of Fiction; 2 Retroterra: Urban Planners, Architects, and the City in Crisis; 3 Memos for the City of the Next Millennium: Invisible Cities as Embodiment of Urban Renewal; 4 Architectures of Lightness; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index.