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Imaginary City
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Author : Rain Chudori
language : id
Publisher: Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Release Date : 2017-10-16
Imaginary City written by Rain Chudori and has been published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-16 with Foreign Language Study categories.
It was an eternally unfinished city, and yet it was indestructable. There is no certainty here, not for seasons and not for deep sentiments. That is why she has returned. -- A restless young woman revisits the city where she was born, and encounters a man that she has known for years. The pair becomes involved in a brutally beautiful affair that inevitably binds them within the concrete of the city. This is a story about a space that remains between him and her, a city that exists between the real and the imaginary, a love that lives between now and forever. "Captivating."-- Aan Mansyur, writer.
Imaginary Cities
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Author : Darran Anderson
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-04-06
Imaginary Cities written by Darran Anderson and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-06 with Architecture categories.
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.”
Imaginary Cities
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Author : Darran Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Imaginary Cities written by Darran Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Cities and towns categories.
Inspired by the surreal accounts of the explorer and 'man of a million lies' Marco Polo, Imaginary Cities charts the metropolis and the imagination, and the symbiosis therein. A work of creative nonfiction, the book roams through space, time and possibility, mapping cities of sound, melancholia and the afterlife, where time runs backwards or which float among the clouds. In doing so, Imaginary Cities seeks to move beyond the cliches of psychogeography and hauntology, to not simply revisit the urban past, or our relationship with it, but to invade and reinvent it. Following in the lineage of Borges, Calvino, Chris Marker and Kenneth White, the book examines the city from global macrocosm to the microcosm of its inhabitants' perspectives. It proceeds through opium dreams, sea voyages, the hallucinations of prisoners, nocturnal decadence, impossible Soviet skyscrapers, marauding golems, subterranean civilisations, apocalyptic prophecies and the work of architectural visionaries such as Antonio Sant'Elia, Archigram and Buckminster Fuller. It rethinks the ideas of utopias and dystopias, urban exploration, alienation and resistance.It claims that the Situationists lacked ambition when they suggested, "Beneath the paving stones, the beach. " Instead, beneath the paving stones, we may just be able to discern the entire universe. Imaginary Cities demonstrates that each city dreamt up by artists, writers, architects and lunatics has a real-life equivalent and that the great Marco Polo was no liar. Imaginary Cities need not simply exist in fiction or the mind. We already inhabit them.
Atlas
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Author : Kai-cheung Dung
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-17
Atlas written by Kai-cheung Dung and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-17 with Fiction categories.
Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections—"Theory," "The City," "Streets," and "Signs"—the novel reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing real-world scenarios with purely imaginary people and events while incorporating anecdotes and actual and fictional social commentary and critique. Much like the quasi-fictional adventures in map-reading and remapping explored by Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino, Dung Kai-cheung's novel challenges the representation of place and history and the limits of technical and scientific media in reconstructing a history. It best exemplifies the author's versatility and experimentation, along with China's rapidly evolving literary culture, by blending fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a story about succeeding and failing to recapture the things we lose. Playing with a variety of styles and subjects, Dung Kai-cheung inventively engages with the fate of Hong Kong since its British "handover" in 1997, which officially marked the end of colonial rule and the beginning of an uncharted future.
Macau
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Author : Jonathan Porter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-23
Macau written by Jonathan Porter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-23 with Political Science categories.
"For many people who have encountered it, Macau makes a deep impression on the imagination, as if the city were not entirely real or, rather, not of the real world. Macau often seems dreamlike, as though it were sustained by the effort of some powerful imagination." In this evocative essay on the cultural and social history of a unique and fragile city, Jonathan Porter examines Macau as an enduring but ever-changing threshold between East and West. Founded by the Portuguese in 1557, Macau emerged as a vibrant commercial and cultural hub in the early seventeenth century. The city then gradually evolved, flourishing first as a Eurasian community in the eighteenth century and then as an increasingly Chinese city in the nineteenth century. Macau became a modern manufacturing center in the late twentieth century and is now destined for reversion to the People’s Republic of China in 1999. The city was the meeting ground for many cultures, but central to this fascinating story is the encounter between an expansive, seaborne Portuguese empire and the introspective, closed world of imperial China. Unlike the other great colonial port cities of Asia, Macau did not provide natural access to the hinterland, and this geographical and historical isolation has fostered a unique balance of cultural influences that survives to this day. Poised on the periphery of two worlds, an isolated but global crossroads, Macau is a unique cultural and social melange that illuminates crucial issues of cross-cultural exchange in world history. Establishing Portugal and China as distinct cultural archetypes, Porter then examines the subsequent encounters of East and West in Macau from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Avoiding the traditional linear chronological approach, Porter instead looks at a series of images from the city’s history and culture, including its place in the geographical context of the South China coast; the architecture of Macau, which reflects the memories of its historical passages; the variety of people who crossed the threshold of Macau; the material culture of everyday life; and the spiritual topography resulting from the encounters of popular religious movements in Macau. Jonathan Porter concludes his literary journey by reflecting on the character and meaning of the many cultural and social influences that have met and mingled in Macau. His words and photographs eloquently capture the essence of a place that seems too ephemeral to be real, too captivating to be anything but an imaginary city.
The Imaginary City And Other Places
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Author : Elisheva Sterling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-04-29
The Imaginary City And Other Places written by Elisheva Sterling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-29 with Fiction categories.
There are various problems with living in an imaginary city, and all of them stem from the pre-reality nature of its not-quite-existence. You can't expect anything to work the way it does in the real world. What's even more confusing is trying to understand what stays in the imaginary places and what bleeds over into the real world. It's enough to drive you crazy.These nine short stories explore real places through rose colored lenses. They are a travelog of magic reality. Visit Petach Tikvah in Israel, a city that only exists in the imaginations of its inhabitants. Travel to the desert outside Dimona, and back to Tel Aviv in time for the Israeli tent protests during the summer after the outbreak of the Arab Spring. Far and away, the world is quite different in the American Pacific Northwest. The magic has a different flavor, but it's still recognizably magic. You'll know it when you see it. At last, take a trip to Scotland to lose your stresses and find yourself in amongst the dead trees.
Invisible Cities
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Author : Italo Calvino
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-14
Invisible Cities written by Italo Calvino and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-14 with Fiction categories.
Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail - each with a woman's name... In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote 'Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvellous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant.' This is a captivating meditation on culture, language, time, memory and the nature of human experience. 'Invisible Cities changed the way we read and what is possible in the balance between poetry and prose... The book I would choose as pillow and plate, alone on a desert island' Jeanette Winterson 'Touches inexhaustibly on the essence of the human urge to create cities, be in cities, speak of cities' Guardian 'A subtle and beautiful meditation' Sunday Times
Imaginary City Graphic Novel
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Author : Rain Chudori
language : id
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-04-14
Imaginary City Graphic Novel written by Rain Chudori and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-14 with categories.
The most beautiful thing you can do for a person is to remember them. Amid a party, a restless young woman revisits the city where she came from and encounters a man that she has known for years. The pair falls into an inevitable affair that binds them within the map of the city. Based on the celebrated novella by Rain Chudori, Imaginary City is now rereleased as a graphic novel in collaboration with illustrator Jame Kristanto. Imaginary City is an exploration of love, loss, and oblivion. Imaginary City merupakan novel karya dari Rain Chudori. Ia adalah penulis pemenang penghargaan, kurator, dan life-long nomad. Dia adalah pendiri Moment Studio and curator dari Comma Books Publishing. Rain Chudori telah menulis beberapa buku, di antaranya Monsoon Tiger and Other Stories (2015), Imaginary City (2017), dan Biru dan Kisah-Kisah Lainnya (2018). Dia berbasis di New Delhi, India. Dia saat ini adalah seorang seniman yang tinggal di New York. Miliki koleksi buku Imaginary City Graphic Novel sekarang juga! Informasi Buku: Penulis : Rain Chudori Harga : Rp96.000 Penerbit : Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia Jumlah Halaman : 168 halaman Tanggal Terbit : 15 April 2022 Bahasa : English ISBN : 9786024818050 SKU : 592202013 Width : 13,5 cm Height : 20 cm Weight : 0,145 kg Jenis Cover : Soft cover
The Imaginary City
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Author : Michael Bazzett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-12-01
The Imaginary City written by Michael Bazzett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with categories.
The Imaginary City In The Twenty First Century
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Author : Ayse N. Erek
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Imaginary City In The Twenty First Century written by Ayse N. Erek and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.