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

Lindner, Christoph, 1971-

New York, NY [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2015

XII, 228 S : Ill. ; 24 cm

Englisch

IntroductionArchive 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-19-537515-2 (paper); 978-0-19-537514-5 (cloth)

978-0-19-970518-4 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2014023869

9780195375152

OCoLC: 931706227     

OCoLC: 910339548 (aus SWB)     

HR 1703  | ZH 9400  | HU 1691      Ähnliche Literatur

HN80.N5

303.409747/1

Basisklassifikation: 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte> ; 74.12 (Stadtgeographie; Siedlungsgeographie)

SSG-Nummer(n): 7,26

*New York, NY ; Literatur ; Städtebau ; Künste ; Geschichte 1890-1940     Zum Register

LOC-SH: 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 ; 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

"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"--