The Routledge Companion on Architecture, Literature and The City

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The Routledge Companion on Architecture, Literature and The City is written by Jonathan Charley and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1317042875 (ISBN 10) and 9781317042877 (ISBN 13).

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 everything from science fiction and the crime novel, to poetry, comics and oral history. It is structured into two sections: History, Narrative and Genre, and Strategy, Language and Form. Including over ninety illustrations, the book is a must read for academics and students.