Preface
Introduction
Table of Contents
I The City as a Performative Space in Early Modern Italy
1. Weintritt: Marketplace Encounters: Social Mixing on the Streets of Early Modern Florence
2. Averett: ‘Noble Edifices’: Performative Urbanism in Early-Modern Rome
3. Gemmani: Perspective Cities: Staging Transferable Spaces in the Learned Comedy
4. Cecchini: The lure of shopping. The Mercerie in early modern Venice and the city as a permanent mall
5. Hafer: Ancient Magnificence and Modern Design: Roman Architecture and Identity in the Printed Works of Alessandro Specchi (1666–1729) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778)
II The City in Times of Crisis: Urban Spaces in Modern Italy
6. VanWagenen: Le piazze d’Italia: de Chirico’s Prophetic Vision of Public Space in Destination Italy
7. Garvin: Colonie Architecture and Fascism’s Cult of Youth
8. Gillen: Fare la vita grigia: The Industrial City of Italo Calvino and Luciano Bianciardi
III The City as a Space of Conflict: Landscapes of Late Capitalism
9. Tholl: Il mondo è meglio non vederlo che vederlo: Naples as Urban Dystopia in Un paio di occhiali
10. Cannamela and Castaldo: Narratives of a ‘City Under Siege’: Bodies and Discourses of the 1977 Movement in Bologna
11. Patat: Terzani’s cityscapes of Asia: In Asia (1965–1997)
Index .