Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between by Anderson, Darran
Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between by Anderson, Darran

Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between

For as long as humans have gathered in cities, those cities have had their shining--or shadowy--counterparts. Imaginary...
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Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between by Anderson, Darran

Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between

$59.48
Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between by Anderson, Darran

Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between

$59.48
Author: Darran Anderson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
For as long as humans have gathered in cities, those cities have had their shining--or shadowy--counterparts. Imaginary cities, potential cities, future cities, perfect cities. It is as if the city itself, its inescapable gritty reality and elbow-to-elbow nature, demands we call into being some alternative, yearned-for better place.

This book is about those cities. It's neither a history of grand plans nor a literary exploration of the utopian impulse, but rather something different, hybrid, idiosyncratic. It's a magpie's book, full of characters and incidents and ideas drawn from cities real and imagined around the globe and throughout history. Thomas More's allegorical island shares space with Soviet mega-planning; Marco Polo links up with James Joyce's meticulously imagined Dublin; the medieval land of Cockaigne meets the hopeful future of Star Trek. With Darran Anderson as our guide, we find common themes and recurring dreams, tied to the seemingly ineluctable problems of our actual cities, of poverty and exclusion and waste and destruction. And that's where Imaginary Cities becomes more than a mere--if ecstatically entertaining--intellectual exercise: for, as Anderson says, "If a city can be imagined into being, it can be re-imagined." Every architect, philosopher, artist, writer, planner, or citizen who dreams up an imaginary city offers lessons for our real ones; harnessing those flights of hopeful fancy can help us improve the streets where we live.

Though it shares DNA with books as disparate as Calvino's Invisible Cities and Jane Jacobs's Death and Life of Great American Cities, there's no other book quite like Imaginary Cities. After reading it, you'll walk the streets of your city--real or imagined--with fresh eyes.


Author: Darran Anderson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 04/06/2017
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780226470306


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 01/23/2017

About the Author
Darran Anderson is an Irish writer residing in Scotland. He has written for a host of publications on the intersections of urbanism, culture, technology and politics.

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