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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Modena, Letizia, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 17.

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Calvino, Italo--Criticism and interpretation.

Calvino, Italo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-73059-1

1-136-73060-5

1-283-15112-X

9786613151124

0-203-81764-8

9780203817643

OCLC:

730151674