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Invisible Cities

Author	: Italo Calvino
Publisher	: HarperCollins
Release Date	: 2013-08-12
ISBN 10	: 9780544133204
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (332 users)

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Download or read book Invisible Cities written by Italo Calvino and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.

"Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination

Author	: Benjamin Linder
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Release Date	: 2022-11-08
ISBN 10	: 9783031130489
Pages	: 355 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (34 users)

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Download or read book "Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination written by Benjamin Linder and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1972, Italo Calvino published Invisible Cities, a literary book that masterfully combines philosophy and poetry, rigid structure and free play, theoretical insight and glittering prose. The text is an extended meditation on urban life, and it continues to resonate not only among literary scholars, but among social scientists, architects, and urban planners as well. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Invisible Cities, this collection of essays serves as both an appreciation and a critical engagement. Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume grapples with the theoretical, pedagogical, and political legacies of Calvino’s work. Each chapter approaches Invisible Cities not only as a novel but as a work of evocative ethnography, place-writing, and urban theory. Fifty years on, what can Calvino’s dreamlike text offer to scholars and practitioners interested in actually existing urban life?

Plato's Invisible Cities

Author	: Adi Ophir
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2002-09-10
ISBN 10	: 9781134959747
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (597 users)

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Download or read book Plato's Invisible Cities written by Adi Ophir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original and detailed reading of Plato's Republic, one of the most influential philosophical works in the emergence of Western philosophy. The author discusses the Republic in terms of discursive events and political acts. Plato's act is placed in the context of a politico-discursive crisis in Athens at the end of the fifth and the beginning of the fourth century B.C that gave rise to the dialogue's primary question, that of justice. The originality of Dr. Ophir lies in the way he reconstructs the Republic's different spatial settings - utopian, mythical, dramatic and discursive - using them as the main thread of his interpretation. Against the background of Plato's critique of the organisation of civic-space in the Greek polis, the author relates the spatial settings in the Plato text to each other. This provides a basis for a re-examination of the relationship between philosophy and politics, which Plato's work advocates, and which it actually enacted.

The Invisible City

Author	: Kyle Gillette
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2020-04-23
ISBN 10	: 9780429649288
Pages	: 132 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (492 users)

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Download or read book The Invisible City written by Kyle Gillette and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invisible City explores urban spaces from the perspective of a traveller, writer, and creator of theatre to illuminate how cities offer travellers and residents theatrical visions while also remaining mostly invisible, beyond the limits of attention. The book explores the city as both stage and content in three parts. Firstly, it follows in pattern Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities, wherein Marco Polo describes cities to the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, to produce a constellation of vignettes recalling individual cities through travel writing and engagement with artworks. Secondly, Gillette traces the Teatro Potlach group and its ongoing immersive, site-specific performance project Invisible Cities, which has staged performances in dozens of cities across Europe and the Americas. The final part of the book offers useful exercises for artists and travellers interested in researching their own invisible cities. Written for practitioners, travellers, students, and thinkers interested in the city as site and source of performance, The Invisible City mixes travelogue with criticism and cleverly combines philosophical meditations with theatrical pedagogy.

Invisible City

Author	: Helen Hills
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2004-01-25
ISBN 10	: 0195353536
Pages	: 328 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book Invisible City written by Helen Hills and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other European city, Baroque Naples was dominated by convents. Behind their imposing facades and highly decorated churches, the convents of Naples housed the daughters of the city's most exclusive families, women who, despite their cloistered existence, were formidable players in the city's power structure. Invisible City vividly portrays the religious world of seventeenth-century Naples, a city of familial and internecine rivalries, of religious devotion and intense urban politics, of towering structures built to house the virgin daughters of the aristocracy. Helen Hills demonstrates how the architecture of the convents and the nuns' bodies they housed existed both in parallel and in opposition to one another. She discusses these women as subjects of enclosure, as religious women, and as art patrons, but also as powerful agents whose influence extended beyond the convent walls. Though often ensconced in convents owing to their families' economic circumstances, many of these young women were able to extend their influence as a result of the role convents played both in urban life and in art patronage. The convents were rich and powerful organizations, riven with feuds and prey to the ambitions of viceregal and elite groups, which their thick walls could not exclude. Even today, Neapolitan convents figure prominently in the city's fabric. In analyzing the architecture of these august institutions, Helen Hills skillfully reads conventual architecture as a metaphor for the body of the aristocratic virgin nun, mapping out the dialectic between flesh and stone.

Invisible City

Author	: John I. Gilderbloom
Publisher	: University of Texas Press
Release Date	: 2009-02-17
ISBN 10	: 0292778929
Pages	: 281 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (29 users)

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Download or read book Invisible City written by John I. Gilderbloom and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legendary figure in the realms of public policy and academia, John Gilderbloom is one of the foremost urban-planning researchers of our time, producing groundbreaking studies on housing markets, design, location, regulation, financing, and community building. Now, in Invisible City, he turns his eye to fundamental questions regarding housing for the elderly, the disabled, and the poor. Why is it that some locales can offer affordable, accessible, and attractive housing, while the large majority of cities fail to do so? Invisible City calls for a brave new housing paradigm that makes the needs of marginalized populations visible to policy makers. Drawing on fascinating case studies in Houston, Louisville, and New Orleans, and analyzing census information as well as policy reports, Gilderbloom offers a comprehensive, engaging, and optimistic theory of how housing can be remade with a progressive vision. While many contemporary urban scholars have failed to capture the dynamics of what is happening in our cities, Gilderbloom presents a new vision of shelter as a force that shapes all residents.

The 99% Invisible City

Author	: Roman Mars
Publisher	: Houghton Mifflin
Release Date	: 2020
ISBN 10	: 9780358126607
Pages	: 405 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (266 users)

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Download or read book The 99% Invisible City written by Roman Mars and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2020 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast

Understanding Italo Calvino

Author	: Beno Weiss
Publisher	: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date	: 1993
ISBN 10	: 0872498581
Pages	: 260 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (81 users)

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Download or read book Understanding Italo Calvino written by Beno Weiss and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights Calvino's fascination with folk tales, knights, social & political allegories, & science fiction.

Unknowing

Author	: Philip M. Weinstein
Publisher	: Cornell University Press
Release Date	: 2005
ISBN 10	: 0801489733
Pages	: 324 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (33 users)

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Download or read book Unknowing written by Philip M. Weinstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weinstein explores the modernist commitment to 'unknowling' by addressing the work of three experimental writers: Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, & William Faulkner.

Invisible Cities

Author	: Dermot Bolger
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1988
ISBN 10	: STANFORD:36105008590254
Pages	: 164 pages
Rating	: 4.O/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book Invisible Cities written by Dermot Bolger and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Continental Feminism Reader

Author	: Ann J. Cahill
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN 10	: 0742523098
Pages	: 348 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (98 users)

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Download or read book Continental Feminism Reader written by Ann J. Cahill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of backlash and supposed stagnation, feminist philosophers are still providing fresh and challenging perspectives--you just have to know where to look. Continental feminist theory continues to address pressing questions of equality and difference, identity and subjectivity. Modern thinkers like Judith Butler, Kelly Oliver, and Drucilla Cornell give strikingly new perspectives on sex, gender, sexual politics, and the various social reasons for gender inequality. Yet their theories are not always well received. Continental Feminism Reader responds to the marginalization of these thinkers and others like them. In this volume, Ann J. Cahill and Jennifer Hansen collect the most groundbreaking recent work in Continental Feminist Theory, introducing and explaining pieces that are often mystifying to those outside the field and outside academia. With these essays, Continental Feminism Reader begins the process of reanimating feminist politics through the critical tools of its contributors.

Tests of Time

Author	: William H. Gass
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Release Date	: 2003-06-15
ISBN 10	: 0226284069
Pages	: 342 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (69 users)

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Download or read book Tests of Time written by William H. Gass and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-06-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tests of Time brings us fourteen witty and elegant essays by novelist and literary critic William H. Gass, "the finest prose stylist in America" (Steven Moore, Washington Post). Whether he's exploring the nature of narrative, the extent and cost of political influences on writers, or the relationships between the stories we tell and the moral judgments we make, Gass is always erudite, entertaining, and enlightening.

Cities on the Margin, on the Margin of Cities

Author	: Philippe Laplace
Publisher	: Presses Univ. Franche-Comté
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN 10	: 2848670185
Pages	: 248 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (85 users)

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Download or read book Cities on the Margin, on the Margin of Cities written by Philippe Laplace and published by Presses Univ. Franche-Comté. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adrian Lester and Lolita Chakrabarti: A Working Diary

Author	: Adrian Lester
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2020-07-09
ISBN 10	: 9781350092792
Pages	: 192 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (927 users)

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Download or read book Adrian Lester and Lolita Chakrabarti: A Working Diary written by Adrian Lester and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An exhilarating, fascinating and eye-opening journey with two of our most inspirational creatives. A must-read for anyone interested in the crafts of acting and writing or considering a career as a self-employed artist. Lolita and Adrian don't shy away from documenting the reality of our profession – the endless multi-tasking, the long unpaid hours, and the peaks and troughs of generating your own work and being a creative-for-hire. Equally though they celebrate the joy and satisfaction when all that sweat and risk finally pays off.” Meera Syal CBE In this insightful joint working diary, the creative powerhouse of a couple, Lolita Chakrabarti and Adrian Lester, chronicle 16 months of their fascinating working lives, including their experiences working on the stage adaptation of Life of Pi, an original series of monologues about the NHS, the film adaptation of Red Velvet and the TV series The Rook, among many other projects. As readers, we experience, first-hand, their experiences as two of the most proactive and versatile theatre makers today, working across a range of media and exciting collaborations.

Image, Eye and Art in Calvino

Author	: Birgitte Grundtvig
Publisher	: MHRA
Release Date	: 2007
ISBN 10	: 9781904350590
Pages	: 317 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (55 users)

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Download or read book Image, Eye and Art in Calvino written by Birgitte Grundtvig and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few recent writers have been as interested in the cross-over between texts and visual art as Italo Calvino (1923-85). Involved for most of his life in the publishing industry, he took as much interest in the visual as in the textual aspects of his own and other writers' books. In this volume twenty international Calvino experts, including Barenghi, Battistini, Belpoliti, Hofstadter, Ricci, Scarpa and others, consider the many facets of the interplay between the visual and textual in Calvino's works, from the use of colours in his fiction to the influence of cartoons, from the graphic qualities of the book covers themselves to the significance of photography and landscape in his fiction and non-fiction. The volume is appropriately illustrated with images evoked by Calvino's major texts.

Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures

Author	: Stamatina Th. Rassia
Publisher	: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date	: 2013-08-15
ISBN 10	: 9783642376610
Pages	: 301 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (766 users)

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Download or read book Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures written by Stamatina Th. Rassia and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures presents works written by eminent international experts from a variety of disciplines including architecture, engineering and related fields. Due to the ever-increasing focus on sustainable technologies, alternative energy sources, and global social and urban issues, interest in the energy systems for cities of the future has grown in a wealth of disciplines. Some of the special features of this book include new findings on the city of the future from the macro to the micro level. These range from urban sustainability to indoor urbanism, and from strategies for cities and global climate change to material properties. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers active in architecture, engineering, the social and computational sciences, building physics and related fields.

Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West

Author	: John Tulk
Publisher	: University of Toronto Press
Release Date	: 2008-01-01
ISBN 10	: 9780802099280
Pages	: 353 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (992 users)

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Download or read book Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West written by John Tulk and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of "East" and "West" in Polo's writings.