CONTENTS List of figures ix Notes on contributors xi Preface. xiii Acknowledgements xvi 1 Time, space arid narrative: reflections on architecture, literature and modernity 1 Jonathan Charley PART I Memory, nation, identity 19 2 Remembering and forgetting: private and public lives in the imagined nation 21 Sarah Edwards 3 Poets, tramps and a town planner: a survey of Raymond Unwin's on-site persona 32 Brian Ward 4 Unhomely desire: dismantling the walls of difference in Gora's Kolkata 56 Mark Mikherjee Campbell 5 'The past forsworn': colonialism and counterhistory in the work of Doris Lessing 78 Victoria Rosner PART II Movement, culture, genre 95 6 Drugs, crime and other worlds 97 Jonathan Charley 7 Architectural crimes and architectural solutions 108 Peter Ctandfield 8 Philip K. Dick's disturbanism: towards psychospatial readings of science fiction 127 David T. Fortin 9 Alexander Trocchi: Glasgow through the eye of a needle 146 Gary A. Boyd PART III Narrative, form, space 165 10 Anonymous encounters: the structuring of space in postmodern narratives of the city 167 Sarah Edwards 11 The novel architecture of Georges Perec 178 Stefanie Elisabeth Sobelle 12 Sex happens: a phenomenological reading of the casual encounter 191 Renee Tobe 13 'There are different ways of making the streets tell': narrative, urban space and orientation 213 Inga Bryden Index 227