Imagining New York City

Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Architecture, Planning, Entertainment, Film, History & Criticism, Fiction & Literature, Anthologies
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Author: Christoph Lindner ISBN: 9780190231750
Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: February 2, 2015
Imprint: Oxford University Press Language: English
Author: Christoph Lindner
ISBN: 9780190231750
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: February 2, 2015
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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