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Imaginary cities : a tour of dream cities, nightmare cities, and everywhere in between / Darran Anderson.
- Title
- Imaginary cities : a tour of dream cities, nightmare cities, and everywhere in between / Darran Anderson.
- Author
- Anderson, Darran
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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- Description
- 570 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Men of a Million Lies, or How We Imagine the World -- The Tower -- The Alchemical Cities -- The Abiding Desire for No Place -- Remembering the Future -- The Turk -- Flotsam and Jetsam.
- ISBN
- 9780226470306
- 022647030X
- 9780226470443 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2016042849
- OCLC
- 957532371
- SCSB-11394298
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library