"Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination

Benjamin Linder is Assistant Editor at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

• 1. Introduction: Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination.- Part I Cities & Theory.- 2. Invisible Cities: Learning to Recognize Urban Society.- 3. How to Map the Invisible.- 4. Invisible Cities and the Work of Storying the Future.- 5. Paris, Latour, and Calvino.- 6. Queer Cities, Bodies & Desire: Reading Nicole Brossard alongside Italo Calvino.- 7. On the Epistemic Ruins of Existence.- Part II Cities & Cities.- 8. “The Void not Filled with Words": The Role of Venice in Invisible Cities.- 9. A Tale of Two Ethnographers: Urban Anthropologists Read Invisible Cities.- 10. Fifty Years of Soul City: Lessons of a Black Utopia.- 11. Tirana Visible and Invisible.- 12. The Lost City: The Pathos of Arab Jerusalem.- 13. “Submerging the City in Its Own Past”: Tracing Glasgow’s Architectures of Inhabitation.- 14. Poetics of the Invisible, Poetics of Rubble.- 15. Encountering Urban Mutualities and Indeterminacy with a Dar es Salaam Taxi Driver.- 16. Reconstructing Memory and Desire in Bhaktapur, Nepal.- 17. The Weight of the City: The Burden and Opportunities of Urban Villages.- 18. Don’t Nuisance the Relented City: Community Barriers and Urban “Keepers” in the Haedo, Buenos Aires.- Part III Cities & Practice.- 19. The Architect and Invisible Cities.- 20. Visible Cities: Calvino in Performance.- 21. The Pedagogy of Storytelling in Invisible Cities.- 22. Invisible Smart Cities.- 23. Peripheral Visions of Empire: Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajevo (Homage to Calvino).- 24. Imagining São Paulo with Invisible Cities.- 25. Desires and Fears in the Invisible Eternal City.- 26. Nyctopolis, the City of Darkness.- 27. Epilogue: A Comparative Palimpsest of Urban Plenitude and Difference.