Invisible Cities (Italian: Le città invisibili) is a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. The book explores imagination and the imaginable through the descriptions of cities by an explorer, Marco Polo.
"Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is so called because it asserts that what makes up a city is not so much its physical structure but the impression it imparts upon its visitors, the way its inhabitants move within, something unseen that hums between the cracks."
Invisible Cities was the trigger for a photographic work called Cities In Visible.
A photo book based in appropriation where Calvino’s text collages are combined with photos from Greece’s largest city during the current economic crisis (2014). Where in Polo’s descriptions of 55 cities underlies his ideal city: Venice, now in "Cities In Visible" there is Athens and it’s suburbs that represents an ideal city in crisis. (by Argyris Drolapas)