Cities Utopian, Dystopian, and Apocalyptic

Bibliographic Data

ID23201693
AuthorsLieven Ameel (0000-0001-8072-4970, Twitter (United States), corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages785-800
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2_49
OpenAlexW2588071157
ISBN9781137549112
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited22

The city has always held the promise of utopia, the intimation that it be the spatial form within which a harmonious and wholesome society could take shape, as the emanation of a civic, rational, or holy order. And as often, the city has been associated with the opposite: with the failure of such an order to take hold, and with the sense that an imminent end-time could upend the social and cultural fabric of humankind in the form of its perhaps most celebrated cultural artefact. This chapter examines utopian, dystopian, and apocalyptic renderings of the city in literature.

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dystopia · Environmental ethics · Literature · Order (exchange) · Sociology · Utopia · Cinema and Media Studies · Night-time city culture · Philosophy · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction