Utopia, equity and ideology in urban texts : fair and unfair cities / Michael G. Kelly, Mariano Paz, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelly, Michael G. (Michael Gerard), editor.

Paz, Mariano, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Series:

Literary urban studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns in literature.

Cities and towns--Political aspects.

Cities and towns.

Cities and towns--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 345 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

Contents:

1 Fair and Unfair Cities: Equity, Ideology, Utopia

Part I Histories of the Future

2 The Dialectics of Revery: Daydreaming and the (Un)Fair City, 17941922

3 Utopia as Urban Testing Ground: Spatial and Social Forms in the Works of Ebenezer Howard and H.G. Wells

4 Utopia and Agoraphobia in 1920s Marseilles: Empty Space in the Work of Lszl Moholy-Nagy and Siegfried Kracauer

5 Ideological Troubles in the Proletarian Paradise: The Four Cities of Werner Illings Utopolis (1930)

6 Prince Charles A Vision of Britain as Populist Retrotopia

Part II Reclaiming and Remaking

7 Another World is Plantable: Community Gardening and Urban Planning

8 Imaginaries of the Future City: Envisioning Climate Change and Technological Cityscapes through Dutch Contemporary Speculative Fiction

9 Both Kinds of Occupation: Reclaiming and Remaking the City in Contemporary Poetry

10 Navigating Beyond Gender: The City in Feminist Science Fiction

11 Pathways Towards Utterance in Contemporary French Poetic Practice: Framing the Urban Real

Part III Fictional Fieldwork

12 Aztecs and Angels in Mexico City: Urban Palimpsests and Social Critique in Fictions by Homero Aridjis and Edgar Clement

13 Utopianism and the Writing of Lisbon in Jos Saramagos Historical Fiction

14 Unruly Utopia: Divergent Spatialities in Italo Calvinos Invisible Cities

15 Confronting Otherness: The Built Environments in Adrian Tchaikovskys Shadows of the Apt

16 City Which Holds All Times and Places: On Urban Landscape in Maggie Gees The Flood.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 1, 2023).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9783031258558

303125855X

Publisher Number:

99995537825

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.