Literatures of Urban Possibility
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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.
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.
Appeals to an interdisciplinary range of areas including urban studies, cultural geography, and utopian studies Examines individual and collective perspectives on gentrification, urban informality, and city planning Frames future debates by problematizing the relationship between imagined cities and their real-life counterparts
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“The essays collected in Literatures of Urban Possibility are uncompromising in their collective assertion: the humanities hold the power to spark meaningful and lasting change regarding city planning, urbanism and the myriad forces that shape everyday urban life.” (Benjamin Fraser, editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, co-editor of the Palgrave book series Hispanic Urban Studies, and author of Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities (Palgrave Macmillan 2015))
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