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The Shape of a City (French: La Forme d'une ville) is a 1985 book by the French writer Julien Gracq. It is a portrait of Nantes, the city where Gracq grew up, in the form of memories, anecdotes, reflections and dreamlike descriptions.
The work begins with a quote from Baudelaire: “The shape of a city, as we all know, changes more quickly than the mortal heart.” The author writes of a child’s experience of the hierarchy of urban spaces: the radial avenues walked during school recreation periods, the districts between the axes, and the relationship to Nantes of those who ...
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Books. The Shape of a City. Julien Gracq. Turtle Point Press, 2005 - Fiction - 212 pages. Julien Gracq, the most important writer in France, is also the only living writer whose complete works...
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[(The Shape of a City)] [Author: Julien Gracq] published on (November, 2005) : Julien Gracq: Amazon.es: Libros
The Shape of the City presents updated essays on architecture and urbanity, deconstructing the common approach to the history of the city – mainly Eurocentric, American, male, divided between public and private initiatives – by offering new built.
