LEADER 03173oam 22005414a 450 001 9910140450503321 005 20240424225752.0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000557889 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00058918 035 $a(OCoLC)1176455073 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87131 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33808 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000557889 100 $a20200721e20202013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIn Divisible Cities: A Phanto-Cartographical Missive$fDominic Pettman 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2013 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2020 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (168 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 8$aPrint version: 0615853196 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aIn Divisible Cities takes Italo Calvino?s classic re-imagining of Venice, viewed in the mind?s eye from many different metaphysical angles, and projects it on to the world at large. Where the Italian saw his favorite city as an impossible metropolis of many moods, shades, and ways of being, this unauthorized sequel unpacks the Escheresque streets in unexpected directions. In Divisible Cities is thus an exercise in cartographic origami: the reflective and poetic result of the narrator?s desire to map hidden cities, secret cities, imaginary cities, impossible cities, and overlapping cities, existing beneath the familiar Atlas of everyday perception. Stitching these different places and spaces together is a ?double helix? or ?Siamese seduction? between the traveler and his romantic shadow, revealing ? step by step ? a clandestine itinerary of hidden affinities, nestled within the habitual rhythm of things. Matter matters. That?s what the drone of the city tells us. And yet we dream of something beyond these invisible walls. Were I an architect-deity, I would create an Escheresque subway system, linking all the cities in the world. The tunnels themselves, and the people decanted from one place to the other, would eventually create an Ecumenopolis: a single and continuous city, enlaced and endless. Were this the case I could get on the F train at Delancey Street, Manhattan, and ? after a couple of changes mid-town ? emerge in the night-markets of Taipei, or near the Roman baths of Budapest. Or perhaps even downtown Urville. 606 $aCartography 606 $aCities and towns 606 $aUrban geography 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aimaginary geography 610 $afiction 610 $atravel 610 $alove 610 $amaps 615 0$aCartography. 615 0$aCities and towns. 615 0$aUrban geography. 676 $a307.76 700 $aPettman$b Dominic$0800847 712 02$aProject Muse, 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910140450503321 996 $aIn Divisible Cities: A Phanto-Cartographical Missive$91803885 997 $aUNINA