Italo Calvino's architecture of lightness : the utopian imagination in an age of urban crisis / / Letizia Modena

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461290403321
• Autore: Modena Letizia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-73060-5; 1-283-15112-X; 9786613151124; 0-203-81764-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; ; 17
• Disciplina: 853/.914
• Soggetti: Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The inner city of the imagination: utopia and the ethical charge of fiction -- Retroterra: urban planners, architects, and the city in crisis -- Memos for the city of the next millennium: invisible cities as embodiment of urban renewal -- Architectures of lightness.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 reinterpretation of Invisible Cities. Passages from Calvino's most famous novel routinely appear as aphorisms in calendars, posters, and the popular literature of inspiration and self-help, r