Imagining New York City
Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 2 April 2015
- ISBN 9780195375145
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 160x239x17 mm
- Weight 494 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 55 halftones 0
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Short description:
Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces - the skyline, the sidewalk, the slum, and the subway - have come to emblematize key aspects of the modern urban condition.
MoreLong description:
Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the place and significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940. In particular, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces - such as the skyline, the sidewalk, the slum, and the subway - have come to emblematize key aspects of the modern urban condition. In so doing, the book also considers the ways in which cultural developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries set the stage for more recent responses to a variety of urban challenges facing the city, such as post-disaster recovery, the renewal of urban infrastructure, and the remaking of public space.
An evocative and insightful reading of "this endlessly mutable city".
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Archive City
Changing New York
Modern City, Urban Imaginary
Skylines and Sidewalks
After City
Part 1 - Skylines
New York Vertical
The City from Above
Requiem for the Twin Towers
Building the Skyline: A Brief Architectural History
Text and the City
New York Dreamscapes
Fantasy Island
After-Images of New York
Revisioning the Skyscraper
Cinema and the Vertical City
The City from Greenwich Village
Metrotopia
The Empty City
New York Undead
Part 2 - Sidewalks
New York Horizontal
Sidewalks and Public Space
A Short History of the Grid
Street-Walking
Broadway Promenade
Manhattan Flanêuse
Blasé Metropolitan Attitude
City of Slums
Sidewalks and Fear
Tales of the Tenement
New York Underground
Elevated City
High Line, Lowline
Subway City
Underground Fantasies
Slow Street
Afterword
Bibliography
