Urville
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Urville
J. Kingsley Publishers, 2006
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Urville : entre émotion et fascination cité imaginaire ou rêve visionnaire--
Urville : between emotion and fascination : imaginary city or visionary dream--
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"First published in 2004 in French as Urville: entre émotion et fascination cité imaginaire ou rêve visionnaire...by Éditions Carnot, France."--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Urville, the capital of a large island province, has a population of nearly 12 million, making it the one of the most significant cities in Europe. It is also entirely imaginary.
Gilles Trehin, an autistic man with exceptional creative talents and an obsession with large cities, conceived and developed Urville over the course of 20 years. He shares his vision in this beautifully illustrated guide to the city, which he renders convincingly real in nearly 300 drawings of different districts of Urville. He describes, in remarkable detail, the architectural styles of its individual buildings and provides historical, geographical, economic and cultural information. This includes historical figures and cultural anecdotes grounded in historical reality - Trehin accounts for the effects of the Vichy regime, the Second World War and globalisation on his imagined city.
This book offers fascinating evidence of and insight into the creative power of the autistic mind and will be of interest to people with autism and without.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Uta Frith. Preface. Map of Urville. Introduction. A brief history of Urville. 1. The old town and Carsouce Harbour - the historical quarter of Urville. 2. The growth of Urville. 3. The left bank of Ecrantes. 4. Beaux-Sites, Tression and Valmures. 5. Bellevalois, Mascotte and Barongeais. 6. Sermaille, Catalogne, tainon, Montgelat and Fensouque. 7. Jonquilles, Academie, Republique et Fontinelles. 8. Liberte, Mirecailles, Quatre-Saison and Pre Saint-Julien. 9. Tegartines, Moineaux, Rossignol. 10. Trieres, Martin-Pecheur, la Bourache and Mount Saint-Martin. 11. The East. 12. The northern industrial district. 13. The North-East. 14. Futurville 2000 and the airports.
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