The Routledge companion on architecture, literature and the city / edited by Jonathan Charley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Constructing narratives and narrative construction / Jonathan Charley -- Taking the measure of the incommensurable: architectural representation of the improbable / Louise Pelletier -- Modernity as ambiguity: in Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games / Shari Daya -- Domestic digressions: interrogating Singaporean public housing through its literary forms / Lillian Chee -- Plots of land: urban regeneration in contemporary British procedural novels / Peter Clandfield -- Inequality in Aluísio Azevedo's O Cortiço / Ana Baltazar -- An unliteral construct: the architecture of Graham Greene's "The Destructors": a sedimentary lesson in post-war social change / Johnny Rodgers -- "Cityful passing away, other cityful coming, passing away too": Dublin, Mexico City, Tokyo / Angeliki Sioli -- Written cities: utopian fiction, spatial ordering, and absurdity / Malcolm Miles -- The architecture of Yi Sang's Nalgae / Yoonchun Jung -- The Cold War finds a common home: the intertwined worlds of Philip K. Dick and the Strugatsky Brothers / Jonathan Charley -- Literary language and architectural meaning: mood in Alain Robbe-Grillet's House of Jealousy / Alberto Perez Gomez -- False landscape syndrome: the poetry and propaganda of Andrew Jordan / Owen Hatherley -- The city in the Brazilian novel: posthumous memoirs and other writings / Csaba Deak -- Magic mirrors: reconstructing lost interiors from instructional and constructional writing / Ed Hollis -- Volver a no saber: poetry, architecture and the beginnings of open city / Kristen Kreider & James O'Leary -- Writing atmospheres: literary methods to investigate the thresholds of atmospheres / Klaske Havik -- The laboratory of literary architecture: the joy of cardboard, glue and storytelling: a cross-disciplinary exploration of literature as architecture / Matteo Pericoli and a dialogue between Jonathan Charley and Carola Hilfrich -- Glasgow's Italian centres: narrative, identity, regeneration / Sarah Edwards -- "Stop leaning against the wall. It's wet!": writing on the wall and urban space / Inga Bryden -- Comics and architecture: a reading guide / Koldo Lus Arana -- Figuring speech: before and after writing / Jane Rendell.

"This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature, architecture, and the city, which together form a field of interdisciplinary research that is one of the most innovative and exciting to have emerged in recent years. Bringing together a wide variety of contributors, not only writers, architectural and literary scholars, and social scientists, but graphic novelists and artists, the book offers contemporary essays on the subject, resulting in the definitive and comprehensive guide to the field. The book is structured into three sections: Literature as Modern Urban History, Narrative Strategies, and Language and Form. Including over 70 black and white illustrations, it opens up a creative dialogue between image and text and explores how visual and textual narratives can be creatively combined. This text is a must read for academics and students who have an interest in multidisciplinary research across architecture, literature and cities"--