Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities (1972-) [IT, EN, CZ, TR, SK, PT, ES]

Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times.

“The book, because of its approach to the imaginative potentialities of cities, has been used by architects and artists to visualize how cities can be, their secret folds, where the human imagination is not necessarily limited by the laws of physics or the limitations of modern urban theory. It offers an alternative approach to thinking about cities, how they are formed and how they function.” (Wikipedia)

Originally published in Italian as Le città invisibili, Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1972

English edition
Translated by William Weaver
Publisher Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego/New York/London, 1974
ISBN 0156453800
165 pages

wikipedia (EN)

Le città invisibili (Italian, 1972)
Invisible Cities (English, trans. William Weaver, 1974)
Neviditelná města (Czech, trans. Vladimír Hořký, 1986, no OCR, added on 2013-6-28)
Görünmez Kentler (Turkish, trans. Işıl Saatçioğlu, 1990)
Neviditeľné mestá (Slovak, trans. Pavol Koprda, 2000)
As cidades invisíveis (Portuguese, trans. Diogo Mainardi, 2003)
Las ciudades invisibles (Spanish, 2008)