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Imagining New York City : literature, urbanism, and the visual arts, 1890-1940
- Title
- Imagining New York City : literature, urbanism, and the visual arts, 1890-1940 / Christoph Lindner.
- Author
- Lindner, Christoph, 1971-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Details
- Description
- xii, 228 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Space (Architecture) > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History
- ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
- Public spaces > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History
- City and town life > New York (State) > New York > History
- New York (N.Y.) > In motion pictures
- New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions
- New York (N.Y.) > In art
- Social change > New York (State) > New York > History
- New York (N.Y.) > In literature
- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General
- Sidewalks > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History
- Buildings > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- IRGV 16-1526
- ISBN
- 9780195375145
- 0195375149
- 9780195375152
- 0195375157
- 9780199705184 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014023869
- OCLC
- 891121546
- Author
- Lindner, Christoph, 1971- author.
- Title
- Imagining New York City : literature, urbanism, and the visual arts, 1890-1940 / Christoph Lindner.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- IRGV 16-1526