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Make Them Endure, Give Them Space: Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 89, Number 2, Summer 2022
- pp. 469-481
- 10.1353/sor.2022.0033
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Abstract:
Cities are the most complex creations of human imagination and endeavor. Their physical forms and social relations map the landscape of history and a geography of future possibility. In an age of climate crisis, whither cities, so too humanity. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino's multivalent parable of urban life, is a traveling companion for those seeking to understand how cities came to be and what they might become.