Italo Calvino's architecture of lightness : the utopian imagination in an age of urban crisis / / Letizia Modena
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Italo Calvino's architecture of lightness : the utopian imagination in an age of urban crisis / / Letizia Modena
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2011 |
| New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 853/.914 |
| 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: | 1-136-73059-1 |
| 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.: | 9910970192103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; ; 17.