Learning from Invisible Cities : The Interplay and Dialogue of Order and Disorder
本文探讨卡尔维诺《看不见的城市》中常被忽视的结构与秩序，认为城市研究对其解读低估了秩序的重要性，并呼吁在城市设计中重视秩序与无序的互动。
Just over forty years ago, Italo Calvino's masterpiece Invisible Cities was published in English. In the book, through a series of prose poems, Marco Polo describes the cities he has explored to Kublai Khan. Invisible Cities has been noticeably influential in urban studies. This paper examines the well-known playfulness, fabulism, randomness, and disorder as well as the often less acknowledged structure and order in this classic. It suggests that the conventional interpretation of Invisible Cities in urban studies literature underappreciates the complementary importance of structure and order in this novel. Based on my reading of Invisible Cities and Calvino's work, I speculatively call for emphasis on the interplay and dialogue of order and disorder in the design of cities.