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9781780992549

Writing Urban Space

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    9781780992549

  • ISBN10:

    1780992548

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-07-16
  • Publisher: Zero Books
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Summary

From William Blake through to Iain Sinclair, literature has sought to engage with and transform urban space. Architects now seek the input of poets, and storytelling is employed in urban regeneration. Writing Urban Space investigates this relationship between imaginative writing and the built environment.

Author Biography

Liam Murray Bell is a novelist and essayist. Gavin Goodwin is a poet and essayist.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 1
Word on the Street: Subvertising and Rewriting the Urban Visual Landscape with Street Artp. 6
Writing on the Walls: Discourses of Violence and Catharsis in the Murals of Northern Irelandp. 15
Mansions of the Mind: Vienna and the Spatial Uncannyp. 29
The city exists in two states: WALK DON'T WALK WALK DON'T WALK…p. 40
Can Writing Shape Place?p. 50
Interstitial Practices and 2 Ennerdale Drive: unauthorised biographyp. 60
The Brutalist School: A Lefebvrian Poemp. 73
Finding the Words: Using Found Text to Write the Human Impact of Environmental Disasterp. 87
Urban Space as a Collection of Poetryp. 99
"That time at St. George's": Abandonment, Affect and Spatial Agency in two novels by Nicholas Roylep. 106
Postcards from the House of Light: A Critical Introduction / A Creative Interventionp. 120
Di Brandt: A Mennonite Girl in the Heart of the Cityp. 135
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