Imaginary cities
a tour of dream cities, nightmare cities, and everywhere in between
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Author
Contributions
- Anderson, Darran - Contributor
Publication
2017 - The University of Chicago Press, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
142,500 words, Guess
Page Count
570 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-10022647030X
- ISBN-139780226470306
- Library of Congress Control Number2016042849
- OCLC Control Number957532371
- Better World Books9780226470306
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27232806M
Classifications
- DDC398/.42
- LCCGR940 .A544 2017
- LCCGR940.A544 2017
Description
1 online resource (570 pages)
Description
How can we understand the infinite variety of cities? Darran Anderson seems to exhaust all possibilities in this work of creative nonfiction. Drawing inspiration from Marco Polo and Italo Calvino, Anderson shows that we have much to learn about ourselves by looking not only at the cities we have built, but also at the cities we have imagined. Anderson draws on literature (Gustav Meyrink, Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek, and James Joyce), but he also looks at architectural writings and works by the likes of Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, Medieval travel memoirs from the Middle East, mid-twentieth-century comic books, Star Trek, mythical lands such as Cockaigne, and the works of Claude Debussy.
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