Imagining New York City
Subtitle: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 03, 2015
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780195375152
Description: "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"--
Notes: Source title: Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940