Italo Calvino's architecture of lightness
Subtitle: the utopian imagination in an age of urban crisis
By: Letizia Modena
Series: Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature -- 17
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780415880381
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The inner city of the imagination: utopia and the ethical charge of fiction; title: Retroterra: urban planners, architects, and the city in crisis; title: Memos for the city of the next millennium: invisible cities as embodiment of urban renewal; title: Architectures of lightness.