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This chapter discusses at greater length two literary texts: Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories of a City and Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Their novel approaches to the city and their speculative method of seeing one city (the manifest) through the image of another (the invisible) inform the analytical lens of the present book in developing a psycho-socialpsycho-social profile of DhakaDhaka. Drawing on Pamuk’s and Calvino’s use of spatio-temporal contrasts between the historical past and the fantastical city, this chapter makes a case for using imaginary “other cities” as a critical vantage point. In doing so, it foregrounds the subjective city and its analytical possibilities that are often overlooked in dominant urban discourses.

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Reading One City Through the Images of Another

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    2026年

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  • Tabassum Zaman

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This chapter discusses at greater length two literary texts: Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories of a City and Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Their novel approaches to the city and their speculative method of seeing one city (the manifest) through the image of another (the invisible) inform the analytical lens of the present book in developing a psycho-socialpsycho-social profile of DhakaDhaka. Drawing on Pamuk’s and Calvino’s use of spatio-temporal contrasts between the historical past and the fantastical city, this chapter makes a case for using imaginary “other cities” as a critical vantage point. In doing so, it foregrounds the subjective city and its analytical possibilities that are often overlooked in dominant urban discourses.