1st Edition
Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness The Utopian Imagination in An Age of Urban Crisis
By Letizia Modena
Copyright 2011
268 Pages
37 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
284 Pages
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Routledge
284 Pages
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Routledge
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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 history--circulating among his primary interlocutors, this book takes as its point of departure a sweeping... Read more
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
Biography
Letizia Modena is Assistant Professor of Italian at Villanova University.
