Topothesia
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5315-0317-8 (ISBN)
Topothesia refers to a rhetorical device employing the vivid depiction of an often-imaginary place. This device, Vijay shows, helps us understand urban planning as a narrative genre, one that, even in its most mundane documents, is compelled to produce elaborate fantasies of future places. The book examines specific planning movements over time to understand the form and the stakes of their speculative worlds. In building these worlds, the book shows, planners continually coopted literary critiques of the present and reveries of the future, retaining literature's aesthetics while eschewing its politics. At the same time, Vijay shows, writers and artists have dwelled within and against these colonial imaginaries to seek other means of representing place.
Ameeth Vijay is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Introduction | 1
Part I: Improving Places: Liberal Colonialism and the Speculative Imaginary of Early Planning
1. Garden Cities: The Art and Craft of Making Place in Edwardian Britain | 31
2. Planning as Imperial Cultivation in the Work of Patrick Geddes | 60
Part II: Diminishing Horizons: The Ambivalent Temporalities of Development
3. Capturing the City: Regeneration, Policing, and the Ghosts of Postcolonial Britain | 95
4. The End of London: Temporalities of the Gentrified City | 126
5. Level Up: Zadie Smith’s NW and the Promise of Progression | 158
6. Geographies of Discontent: Brexit and the Politics of Abandonment | 185
Coda | 215
Acknowledgments | 221
Notes | 225
Bibliography | 285
Index | 308
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.04.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 31 b/w illustrations |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Technik ► Architektur | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5315-0317-9 / 1531503179 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5315-0317-8 / 9781531503178 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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