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

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject 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. SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions New York (N.Y.) -- In motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89006035 New York (N.Y.) -- In literature New York (N.Y.) -- In art Subject New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form Art History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780190226350 0190226358 9781322570624 1322570620

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