Utopia, equity and ideology in urban texts : fair and unfair cities / Michael G. Kelly, Mariano Paz, editors.
Kelly, Michael G. (Michael Gerard), editor.; Paz, Mariano, editor.
2023
PN56.C55
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Title Utopia, equity and ideology in urban texts : fair and unfair cities / Michael G. Kelly, Mariano Paz, editors.
ISBN 9783031258558 (electronic bk.)
303125855X (electronic bk.)
9783031258541
3031258541
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25855-8
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 345 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-25855-8 doi
Call Number PN56.C55
Dewey Decimal Classification 809/.93321732
Summary This collection maps the terrain of an inter-discipline that cuts across and draws together literary studies, philosophy, architecture and visual culture, to name just some of the domains with which its contributors engage. Ranging in time from the nineteenth century into imagined futures, and across our world and others, the volume helps us reimagine and rethink questions of urban existence, coexistence and community, and shows how now more than ever, thinking through forms of urban utopia inevitably involves thinking in planetary terms. Edward Welch, Carnegie Professor of French University of Aberdeen, UK Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts: Fair and Unfair Cities explores the complex interrelations of three key critical topics across a diverse range of urban writing. Interrogating the links and tensions between aesthetic and political priorities in the representation and imagining of urban life, the volume engages with work from a wide variety of linguistic and cultural origins and across a range of textual practices having the urban phenomenon as a common framing concern. Individual contributions discussing genre and literary fiction, poetic writing, documentary and essayistic texts, planning manifestos and municipal communications materials serve to demonstrate that the nuanced treatments of urban experience and potential which may be gleaned from across this textual spectrum act as a pragmatic corrective to purely conceptual approaches. As such, the volume consolidates the emerging dialogue between the fields of utopian studies and literary urban studies, understanding these as complementary approaches to the reading of the city and its textual prolongations. Michael G. Kelly is Senior Lecturer in French and Director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick. Mariano Paz is Lecturer in Spanish and Associate Director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick.
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Added Author Kelly, Michael G. (Michael Gerard), editor.
Paz, Mariano, editor.
Series Literary urban studies.
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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.

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