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Intro
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination
Returning to Invisible Cities
The Author, The Text
Invisible Cities, Lived Cities
New Directions, Other Cities
References
Part I: Cities & Theory
Chapter 2: Invisible Cities: Learning to Recognize Urban Society
Introduction
Invisible Cities and The Urban Revolution
What Is to Be Done?
References
Chapter 3: How to Map the Invisible
References
Chapter 4: Invisible Cities and the Work of Storying the Future
Be Empirical
Perfect Control Is Impossible
Be Aware of What Is Unsaid
Stories Can Be Too Seductive
Don't Despair
References
Chapter 5: Paris, Latour, and Calvino
Sociology of Paris
References
Chapter 6: Queer Cities, Bodies & Desire: Reading Nicole Brossard Alongside Italo Calvino
"Tell me another city"
Unruly Systems
Zobeide
Traffic
Maps
Names
Chess
Kiss (By Way of Conclusion)
References
Chapter 7: On the Epistemic Ruins of Existence
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
References
Part II: Cities & Cities
Chapter 8: "The Void not Filled with Words": The Role of Venice in Invisible Cities
Introduction
The City and Literature as Networks
Interchangeable Data and Permutations
Venice and Its Discourse
Venice and Language
Venice and the Future of Cities
References
Chapter 9: A Tale of Two Ethnographers: Urban Anthropologists Read Invisible Cities
Calvino as Visionary Ethnographer (Emanuela Guano)
Invisible Cities from Milan to Vancouver (Cristina Moretti)
Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: Fifty Years of Soul City: Lessons of a Black Utopia
Utopia as a Not-Yet-Place
Utopia from Theory to Practice
References
Chapter 11: Tirana Visible and Invisible
The Bazaar City
The Boulevard City
The Concrete City
The City of Cafés
Conclusion: The Palimpsest of Tirana
References
Chapter 12: The Lost City: The Pathos of Arab Jerusalem
A City of Signs
Night and Cats
The Names of Jerusalem
Narrating the Lost City
References
Chapter 13: "Submerging the City in Its Own Past": Tracing Glasgow's Architectures of Inhabitation
Annie's Loo
Guddling About
Conclusions
References
Chapter 14: Poetics of the Invisible, Poetics of Rubble
Narratives of Loss, Shame, Matter
From Metaphor to Matter
Poetics of the Invisible, Poetics of Rubble
Postscriptum
References
Chapter 15: Encountering Urban Mutualities and Indeterminacy with a Dar es Salaam Taxi Driver
Indeterminacy and Mutuality in the City
All the Future Dars
References
Chapter 16: Reconstructing Memory and Desire in Bhaktapur, Nepal
Introduction
"It Will Be Same as Before": Remembering and Forgetting Through Reconstruction
"Everything Has Changed": Neo-Newar Homes in Bhaktapur
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination
Returning to Invisible Cities
The Author, The Text
Invisible Cities, Lived Cities
New Directions, Other Cities
References
Part I: Cities & Theory
Chapter 2: Invisible Cities: Learning to Recognize Urban Society
Introduction
Invisible Cities and The Urban Revolution
What Is to Be Done?
References
Chapter 3: How to Map the Invisible
References
Chapter 4: Invisible Cities and the Work of Storying the Future
Be Empirical
Perfect Control Is Impossible
Be Aware of What Is Unsaid
Stories Can Be Too Seductive
Don't Despair
References
Chapter 5: Paris, Latour, and Calvino
Sociology of Paris
References
Chapter 6: Queer Cities, Bodies & Desire: Reading Nicole Brossard Alongside Italo Calvino
"Tell me another city"
Unruly Systems
Zobeide
Traffic
Maps
Names
Chess
Kiss (By Way of Conclusion)
References
Chapter 7: On the Epistemic Ruins of Existence
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
References
Part II: Cities & Cities
Chapter 8: "The Void not Filled with Words": The Role of Venice in Invisible Cities
Introduction
The City and Literature as Networks
Interchangeable Data and Permutations
Venice and Its Discourse
Venice and Language
Venice and the Future of Cities
References
Chapter 9: A Tale of Two Ethnographers: Urban Anthropologists Read Invisible Cities
Calvino as Visionary Ethnographer (Emanuela Guano)
Invisible Cities from Milan to Vancouver (Cristina Moretti)
Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: Fifty Years of Soul City: Lessons of a Black Utopia
Utopia as a Not-Yet-Place
Utopia from Theory to Practice
References
Chapter 11: Tirana Visible and Invisible
The Bazaar City
The Boulevard City
The Concrete City
The City of Cafés
Conclusion: The Palimpsest of Tirana
References
Chapter 12: The Lost City: The Pathos of Arab Jerusalem
A City of Signs
Night and Cats
The Names of Jerusalem
Narrating the Lost City
References
Chapter 13: "Submerging the City in Its Own Past": Tracing Glasgow's Architectures of Inhabitation
Annie's Loo
Guddling About
Conclusions
References
Chapter 14: Poetics of the Invisible, Poetics of Rubble
Narratives of Loss, Shame, Matter
From Metaphor to Matter
Poetics of the Invisible, Poetics of Rubble
Postscriptum
References
Chapter 15: Encountering Urban Mutualities and Indeterminacy with a Dar es Salaam Taxi Driver
Indeterminacy and Mutuality in the City
All the Future Dars
References
Chapter 16: Reconstructing Memory and Desire in Bhaktapur, Nepal
Introduction
"It Will Be Same as Before": Remembering and Forgetting Through Reconstruction
"Everything Has Changed": Neo-Newar Homes in Bhaktapur