Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900: Reconstructing their Architecture and Political Philosophy, 

Автор: Morrison, Tessa
Название: Unbuilt utopian cities 1460 to 1900: reconstructing their architecture and political philosophy
ISBN: 1138573302 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138573307
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Описание: Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but also, their architecture and how that architecture informs the political philosophy or social agenda that the author intended. Each of the ten authors expressed their theory through concepts of community and utopian architecture, but each featured an architectural solution at the centre of their social and political philosophy, as none of the cities were ever built, they have remained as utopian literature. Some of the works examined are very well-known, such as Tommaso Campanella's Civitas Solis, while others such as Joseph Michael Gandy's Designs for Cottages, are relatively obscure. However, even with the best known works, this volume offers new insights by focusing on the architecture of the cities and how that architecture represents the author's political philosophy. It reconstructs the cities through a 3-D computer program, ArchiCAD, using Artlantis to render. Plans, sections, elevations and perspectives are presented for each of the cities. The ten cities are: Filarete - Sforzina; Albrecht D 1/4rer - Fortified Utopia; Tommaso Campanella - The City of the Sun; Johann Valentin Andreae - Christianopolis; Joseph Michael Gandy - An Agricultural Village; Robert Owen - Villages of Unity and Cooperation; James Silk Buckingham - Victoria; Robert Pemberton - Queen Victoria Town; King Camp Gillette - Metropolis; and Bradford Peck - The World a Department Store. Each chapter considers the work in conjunction with contemporary thought, the political philosophy and the reconstruction of the city. Although these ten cities represent over 500 years of utopian and political thought, they are an interlinked thread that had been drawn from literature of the past and informed by contemporary thought and society. The book is structured in two parts:

Автор: Ozarisoy, Bertug
Название: Transgressive Design Strategies for Utopian Cities
ISBN: 103215215X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032152158
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Автор: Hardy, Dennis
Название: Utopian England
ISBN: 0419246703 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780419246701
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Автор: Valentina Romanzi
Название: American Nightmares: Dystopia in Twenty-First-Century US Fiction
ISBN: 180079715X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781800797154
Издательство: Peter Lang
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«Valentina Romanzi’s study is a welcome addition to the body of scholarship on dystopia, utopia science fiction, and speculative fiction. It provides a comprehensive and updated review of the complex and rich debate on the question of genres and subgenres, while at the same time offering a fresh perspective. Eloquent and very well written, this volume reveals America’s fascination with catastrophic future scenarios, including the post-apocalyptic, delving into the issues that surround critical dystopia, progress, hope and fear. The close readings offer lucid, insightful interpretations of texts that range from SF literary ancestor, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood’s award winning The Testaments, sequel to the acclaimed The Handmaid’s Tale.»

(Eleonora Rao, Universit? degli Studi di Salerno)

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This volume investigates dystopia in twenty-first-century US fiction. Using a methodological framework based on sociology, it theorizes a correlation between the crisis of the Frontier myth and of American exceptionalism and a renewed interest in dystopian worlds.

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Part One illustrates the methodological framework, exploring the concept of dystopia, offering an overview of the American myths and of their current status and spotlighting some relevant sociological theories.

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Part Two applies the proposed methodological framework to four texts, investigating the sub-genres of political, technological and environmental dystopia. The primary works, chosen to show both the relevance of the abovementioned American myths to dystopian narratives and the pervasiveness of the genre across the media, are Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (2019), Dave Eggers’s The Circle (2013), David Cage’s video game Detroit: Become Human (2018), and the Hughes Brothers’ 2010 movie The Book of Eli.

Автор: Lyman Tower Sargent, Raffaella Baccolini
Название: Transgressive Utopianism: Essays in Honor of Lucy Sargisson
ISBN: 1789978807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789978803
Издательство: Peter Lang
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In 2014, when Lucy Sargisson was promoted to professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, at the University of Nottingham, she became the first and, so far, only, professor of utopian studies. This choice symbolized the centrality of utopianism to her life, thought, and educational practice. In three books, each in their own way groundbreaking, a fourth book co-authored by one of us, and in important articles, her work falls into four primary areas: political theory, feminism, environmentalism, and intentional communities, with much of her work intersecting two, three, or even all four. And in all her work, she brings the lens of utopianism to bear on the subject and, in doing so, illuminates both utopianism and the subject at hand. The volume honors Sargisson’s contributions to the field of utopian studies, with contributions by Ibtisam Ahmed, Raffaella Baccolini, David M. Bell, Suryamayi Clarence-Smith, Chris Coates, Elena Colombo, Davina Cooper, Rhiannon Firth, Ruth Levitas, Sarah Lohmann, Almudena Machado-Jim?nez, Dunja M. Mohr, Tom Moylan, Robyn Muir, Jos? Reis, Lyman Tower Sargent, Lucy Sargisson, Simon Spiegel, Maria Varsam, and Laura Winter.

Автор: Modena, Letizia
Название: Italo Calvino`s Architecture of Lightness
ISBN: 0415880386 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415880381
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Автор: Gambardella Claudio, Cennamo Claudia, Germanа Maria Luisa
Название: Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture
ISBN: 3030507645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030507640
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: At a time dominated by the disappearance of Future, as claimed by the French anthropologist Marc Auge, Utopia and Religion seem to be two different ways of giving back an inner horizon to mankind.

Автор: Modena Letizia
Название: Italo Calvino`s Architecture of Lightness: The Utopian Imagination in an Age of Urban Crisis
ISBN: 1138847232 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138847231
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Описание: This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works--primarily urban planning and design theory and history--circulating among his primary interlocutors, this book takes as its point of departure a sweeping reinterpretation of Invisible Cities. Passages fromCalvino's most famous novel routinely appear as aphorisms in calendars, posters, and the popular literature of inspiration and self-help, reducing the novel to vague abstractions and totalizing wisdom about thinking outside the box. The shadow of postmodern studies has had a similarly diminishing effect on this text, rendering up an accomplished but ultimately apolitical novelistic experimentation in endless deconstructive deferrals, the shiny surfaces of play, and the ultimately rigged game of self-referentiality. In contrast, this study draws on an archive of untranslated Italian- and French-language materials on urban planning, architecture, and utopian architecture to argue that Calvino's novel in fact introduces readers to the material history of urban renewal in Italy, France, and the U.S. in the 1960s, as well as the multidisciplinary core of cultural life in that decade: the complex and continuous interplay among novelists and architects, scientists and artists, literary historians and visual studies scholars. His last love poem for the dying city was in fact profoundly engaged, deeply committed to the ethical dimensions of both architecture and lived experience in the spaces of modernity as well as the resistant practices of reading and utopian imagining that his urban studies in turn inspired.

Автор: Gambardella Claudio, Cennamo Claudia, Germanа Maria Luisa
Название: Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture
ISBN: 303050767X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030507671
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Описание: At a time dominated by the disappearance of Future, as claimed by the French anthropologist Marc Auge, Utopia and Religion seem to be two different ways of giving back an inner horizon to mankind.

Автор: Marvin Simon
Название: Smart Urbanism
ISBN: 1138844233 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138844230
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Smart Urbanism (SU) - the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people - is being represented as a unique emerging 'solution' to the majority of problems faced by cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies, national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a supremacy of urban digital technologies for managing and controlling infrastructures, achieving greater effectiveness in managing service demand and reducing carbon emissions, developing greater social interaction and community networks, providing new services around health and social care etc. Smart urbanism is being represented as the response to almost every facet of the contemporary urban question.

Название: Horizons of the Future
ISBN: 1032761539 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032761534
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Автор: El-Ojeili Chamsy
Название: The Utopian Constellation: Future-Oriented Social and Political Thought Today
ISBN: 3030325156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030325152
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Описание: The CEM 11+ exam combines Non-Verbal Reasoning and mathematics-based questions into one exam. This book offers 5 such tests with 75 questions in each test. It gives practice in the Non-Verbal Reasoning and Mathematics elements of the CEM 11+ exam. You can monitor your child`s success using the chart linked to each individual test - this allows you to easily spot any areas that your child finds problematic and where supplementary practice may be required. This well written book offers a very structured way to explain and study for the CEM 11+ Non-Verbal Reasoning/Mathematics papers. Working and practicing for the CEM 11+ is crucial for success in this difficult exam.