Media capital
Subtitle: architecture and communications in New York City
By: Aurora Wallace
Series: The history of communication
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780252037344; 9780252078828; 9780252094521
Subjects: Press; Corporate image; Buildings, structuers; Mass media and architecture
Description: Nineteenth-century press barons in New York City helped to invent the skyscraper. Early newspaper buildings in the country's media capital were designed to communicate both commercial and civic ideals, provide public space and prescribe discourse, and speak to class and mass in equal measure. Wallace illustrates how the media have continued to use the city as a space in which to inscribe and assert their power. She considers how architecture contributed to the power of the press, the nature of the reading public, the commercialization of media, and corporate branding in the media industry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Newspaper capitalization; title: New buildings and new spaces; title: Nineteenth century stories and columns; title: Art deco news; title: Postwar news.