Imagining New York City Literature Urbanism and the Visual Arts 1890 1940 1st Edition by Christoph Lindner ISBN 0195375157 978-0195375152

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ISBN 10: 0195375157 

ISBN 13: 978-0195375152

Author: Christoph Lindner

 Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the 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, Christoph Lindner 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.

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 Flâneuse
• 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

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