Urban Literacy - Reading and Writing Architecture

This book discusses how literature offers valuable ways to become aware of how people experience, use, and imagine places. It argues that Lefebvre’s concept of lived space, experienced and lived through by characters, evoking memories and imaginations, is the space that we encounter in the evocative descriptions of places and spaces by literary writers. This book proposes a literary approach using instruments from for research and design of architecture, urban space and landscapes.