Imagining New York City : literature, urbanism, and the visual arts, 1890-1940

Imagining New York City : literature, urbanism, and the visual arts, 1890-1940 / Christoph Lindner.

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...

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Main Author: Lindner, Christoph, 1971- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
City and town life > New York (State) > New York > History.
Space (Architecture) > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History.
Public spaces > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History.
Buildings > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History.
Sidewalks > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History.
Social change > New York (State) > New York > History.
City and town life
Literature
Motion pictures
Public spaces > Social aspects
Sidewalks > Social aspects
Social change
Social conditions
Space (Architecture) > Social aspects
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Social Conditions.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.) > In motion pictures.
New York (N.Y.) > In literature.
New York (N.Y.) > In art.
New York (State) > New York
Art
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Imagining New York City; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgments; List of figures; Introduction: The Mutable City; Archive City; Changing New York; Modern City, Urban Imaginary; Skylines and Sidewalks; After City; Part I: 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 II: Sidewalks.
  • New York HorizontalSidewalks and Public Space; A Short History of the Grid; Street-Walking; Broadway Promenade; Manhattan Flâneuse; Blasé Metropolitan Attitude; City of Slums; Sidewalks and; Tales of the Tenement; New York Underground; Elevated City; High Line, Lowline; Untitled; Subway City; Underground Fantasies; Slow Street; Afterword; Notes; Introduction; Bibliography; Index.

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