Overview: Offers diverse perspectives on urban space and place.Brings together international scholars on global cities.Celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Calvino’s influential textIn 1972, Italo Calvino published .Invisible Cities., a literary book that masterfully combines philosophy and poetry, rigid structure and free play, theoretical insight and glittering prose. The text is an extended meditation on urban life, and it continues to resonate not only among literary scholars, but among social scientists, architects, and urban planners as well. To commemorate the 50.th. anniversary of .I
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