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The Tsar-tree: An Urban Fantasy

Soviet Studies in Literature, 1986
It seems to me that in a discussion of the city and literature, it is appropriate to recall the name of V. I. Vernadskii and his idea of the noosphere, which somehow has something in common with the subject of the UNESCO conference. After all, the city is a kind of visible symbol of the earth's new "thinking layer." But in speaking of what exists and ...
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African urban fantasies: dreams or nightmares?

Environment and Urbanization, 2013
Labelled as the “last frontier” for international property development, sub-Saharan Africa’s larger cities are currently being revisioned in the image of cities such as Dubai, Shanghai and Singapore, which claim top positions in the world-class city leagues.
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Fantasy as a peripheral modernism: uneven development in Charles de Lint's Urban Fantasy

2016
Banerjee, Sandeep (Internal/Supervisor)
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Governance Challenges in African Urban Fantasies

2020
Satellite settlements are recently booming around major African cities, often as comprehensively planned and self-contained new towns. These large-scale projects are influenced by the visions of global, smart, and sustainable cities, and are funded largely through international real estate investments aimed at the middle- and upper-income markets.
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City as Skin: Urban Imaginaries of Flesh and Fantasy

Architectural Design, 2013
AbstractLike a human body patterned with tattoos, any city's public spaces are commonly covered with inscriptions. Artist and educator Silvia Loeffler describes how subversive and unauthorised interventions, such as graffiti, can be perceived as urban expressions of a ‘sexscape’ or body made of flesh, which emanate ‘forms of longing and a dimension of ...
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The Postmodern Sacred: Popular Culture Spirituality in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Urban Fantasy Genres

The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 2014
McAvan, Emily. The Postmodern Sacred: Popular Culture Spirituality in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Urban Fantasy Genres. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 194 pp. $40.00 (USD. paperback) ISBN: 978-0-7864-6388-6. Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7864-9282-4 The premise of Emily McAvan's dissertation-based book, The Postmodern Sacred: Popular Culture Spirituality in ...
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Urban Fantasies

2023
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A closet, the city and the guest room door: the road to fantasy land in the transition fantasy and urban fantasy

childhood: Study and research of children's culture, 2023
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Encountering the more-than-human in urban fantasy literature

2018
Certain types of literature have been heavily studied for their relevancy to the environment, but fantasy literature has been left out of this critical discussion. Ecocriticism of fantasy literature has been dismal, despite the popularity of the genre.
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Financialization of urban development in China: fantasy, fact or somewhere in between?

Regional Studies, 2022
Paul Waley, Yanpeng Jiang
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