Literatures of Urban Possibility 1st edition Markku Salmela

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Product details:

• ISBN 10: 3030709094
• ISBN 13: 9783030709099
• Author: Markku Salmela,Lieven Ameel, Jason Finch 

This book demonstrates how city literature addresses questions of possibility. In city literature, ideas of possibility emerge primarily through two perspectives: texts may focus on what is possible for cities, and they may present the urban environment as a site of possibility for individuals or communities. The volume combines reflections on urban possibility from a range of geographical and cultural contexts—in addition to the English-speaking world, individual chapters analyse possible cities and possible urban lives in Turkey, Israel, Finland, Germany, Russia and Sweden. Moreover, by engaging with issues such as city planning, mass housing, gentrification, informal settlements and translocal identities, the book shows imaginative literature at work outlining what possibility means in cities.

Table contents:

1. The Possible in Literature and Urban Life: Clearing the Field
2. The Possibilities of Urban Informality: Two Views from Istanbul
Part I. Possible Cities
3. Rising Towers, Rising Tides: Competing Visions of the Helsinki Waterfront in Planning and Fiction
4. From Utopia to Retrotopia: The Cosmopolitan City in the Aftermath of Modernity
5. Donald Barthelme’s Impossible Cities
6. ‘Cartographic Ecstasy’: Mapping, Provinciality and Possible Spaces in Dmitrii Danilov’s City Prose

Part II. Possible Urban Lives
7. Possibilities of Translocal Mapping in Tendai Huchu’s The Maestro, the Magistrate & the Mathematician
8. Tipping Points: Gentrification and Urban Possibility
9. Concrete Possibilities: The High-Rise Suburb in Swedish Children’s and Young Adult Literature
10. ‘Double Vision’: Viennese Refugees in New York and Back Home Again
11. Utopian Thinking and the (Im)Possible UK Council Estate: The Birmingham Region in Literature, Image and Experience
12. Afterword: Urban Possibilities in Times of Crisis

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