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Autore: | Modena Letizia |
Titolo: | Italo Calvino's architecture of lightness : the utopian imagination in an age of urban crisis / / Letizia Modena |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
Disciplina: | 853/.914 |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Italo Calvino's architecture of lightness |
ISBN: | 1-136-73060-5 |
1-283-15112-X | |
9786613151124 | |
0-203-81764-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910461290403321 |
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