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A poetic urbanism: Recreating places, remade to measure, but from the inside out

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This commentary offers a reflection on Flusty’s piece 'The Emperor’s Used Clothes, or, Places Remade to Measure’ in City 14(3). It is argued that Flusty uses the imagination as a methodological device for transforming our understanding of the urban experience and, in doing so, invites a comparison with the English Romantic poet S.T. Coleridge. In addition to outlining stylistic similarities in their work, this commentary argues that Flusty’s analysis of the generic development of cities globally offers an example of how Coleridge’s theories of the imaginative faculty can be applied today. Extended from their origins where they offered analytical insight into the processes of poetic writing, Coleridge’s theories are shown, via Flusty, to be of value in augmenting our comprehension and representations of contemporary city life.

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  • Daryl Martin, 2010. "A poetic urbanism: Recreating places, remade to measure, but from the inside out," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(5), pages 586-591, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:5:p:586-591
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.511823
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    1. Daryl Martin, 2014. "Introduction: Towards a Political Understanding of New Ruins," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(3), pages 1037-1046, May.
    2. David Beer, 2014. "Hip-Hop as Urban and Regional Research: Encountering an Insider's Ethnography of City Life," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(2), pages 677-685, March.

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