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Invisible Cities

2013-08-12 Fiction
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Release : 2013-08-12
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 20X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Invisible Cities by : Italo Calvino

Download or read book Invisible Cities written by Italo Calvino. This book was released on 2013-08-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.

The 99% Invisible City

2020 ARCHITECTURE
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Release : 2020
Genre : ARCHITECTURE
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Book Rating : 606/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The 99% Invisible City by : Roman Mars

Download or read book The 99% Invisible City written by Roman Mars. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast

Imaginary Cities

2017-04-06 Architecture
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Release : 2017-04-06
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 30X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Imaginary Cities by : Darran Anderson

Download or read book Imaginary Cities written by Darran Anderson. This book was released on 2017-04-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Anderson sees the visionary architecture dreamed up by architects, artists, philosophers, writers, and citizens as wedded to the egalitarian sense that cities are for everyone. He proves that we must not be locked into the structures that exclude ordinary citizens--that cities evolve and that we can have input. As he says: "If a city can be imagined into being, it can be re-imagined as well.”

The Invisible City

2020-04-23 Performing Arts
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Release : 2020-04-23
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 282/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Invisible City by : Kyle Gillette

Download or read book The Invisible City written by Kyle Gillette. This book was released on 2020-04-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invisible City explores urban spaces from the perspective of a traveller, writer, and creator of theatre to illuminate how cities offer travellers and residents theatrical visions while also remaining mostly invisible, beyond the limits of attention. The book explores the city as both stage and content in three parts. Firstly, it follows in pattern Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities, wherein Marco Polo describes cities to the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, to produce a constellation of vignettes recalling individual cities through travel writing and engagement with artworks. Secondly, Gillette traces the Teatro Potlach group and its ongoing immersive, site-specific performance project Invisible Cities, which has staged performances in dozens of cities across Europe and the Americas. The final part of the book offers useful exercises for artists and travellers interested in researching their own invisible cities. Written for practitioners, travellers, students, and thinkers interested in the city as site and source of performance, The Invisible City mixes travelogue with criticism and cleverly combines philosophical meditations with theatrical pedagogy.

Infinite City

2010-11-29 Art
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Release : 2010-11-29
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 492/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Infinite City by : Rebecca Solnit

Download or read book Infinite City written by Rebecca Solnit. This book was released on 2010-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a place? Rebecca Solnit reinvents the traditional atlas, searching for layers of meaning & connections of experience across San Francisco.

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