Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination

1. Introduction: Invisible Cities and the Urban ImaginationPart I Cities & Theory2. Invisible Cities: Learning to Recognize Urban Society3. How to Map the Invisible4. Invisible Cities and the Work of Storying the Future5. Paris, Latour, and Calvino6. Queer Cities, Bodies & Desire: Reading Nicole Brossard alongside Italo Calvino7. On the Epistemic Ruins of ExistencePart II Cities & Cities8. "The Void not Filled with Words" The Role of Venice in Invisible Cities9. A Tale of Two Ethnographers: Urban Anthropologists Read Invisible Cities10. Fifty Years of Soul City: Lessons of a Black Utopia11. Tirana Visible and Invisible12. The Lost City: The Pathos of Arab Jerusalem13. "Submerging the City in Its Own Past" Tracing Glasgow's Architectures of Inhabitation14. Poetics of the Invisible, Poetics of Rubble15. Encountering Urban Mutualities and Indeterminacy with a Dar es Salaam Taxi Driver16. Reconstructing Memory and Desire in Bhaktapur, Nepal17. The Weight of the City: The Burden and Opportunities of Urban Villages18. Don't Nuisance the Relented City: Community Barriers and Urban "Keepers" in the Haedo, Buenos AiresPart III Cities & Practice19. The Architect and Invisible Cities20. Visible Cities: Calvino in Performance21. The Pedagogy of Storytelling in Invisible Cities22. Invisible Smart Cities23. Peripheral Visions of Empire: Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajevo (Homage to Calvino)24. Imagining S緌 Paulo with Invisible Cities25. Desires and Fears in the Invisible Eternal City26. Nyctopolis, the City of Darkness27. Epilogue: A Comparative Palimpsest of Urban Plenitude and Difference