- L’utopia e la città ideale
- Giandomenico Amendola
Immaginario della città ideale
- Giandomenico Amendola
- © 2026 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0985-4.26
The chapter traces the ideal city as a persistent collective imaginary, from Plato and the Bible through Renaissance painting, literary utopias and modernist urbanism to contemporary urban experience. The urban imaginary — shaped by literature, cinema, media and daily life — is not a mirror of reality but the lens through which citizens desire, inhabit and reimagine their city. The ideal city ultimately lives less in plans than in dreams and hopes.
- Keywords:
- urban imaginary,
- collective memory,
- ideal city,
- urban narrative,
- desire,
University of Florence, Italy
Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Immaginario della città ideale
Authors
Giandomenico Amendola
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0985-4.26
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title
L’utopia e la città ideale
Book Subtitle
Sogni, paure, desideri
Authors
Giandomenico Amendola
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
120
Publication Year
2026
Copyright Information
© 2026 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0985-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0984-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0985-4
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0986-1
Series Title
People_Places_Architecture
Series ISSN
2975-0415
Series E-ISSN
2975-027X