The urban spectator
Subtitle: American concept cities from Kodak to Google
By: Eric Gordon.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Interfaces : studies in visual culture
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781584658030
Subjects: Sociology, Urban -- United States; Photography -- United States
Other titles: American concept cities from Kodak to Google
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Ch. 1. More than the sum of its parts : the white city and amateur photography; title: Ch. 2. Picture thinking : Kodaking and the art of nature; title: Ch. 3. City in motion : early cinema and Times Square; title: Ch. 4. Scaling up : the "speculative architecture" of 1930s New York; title: Ch. 5. The operative city : the machine intelligence of urban renewal; title: Ch. 6. Rerun city : nostalgia and urban narrative; title: Ch. 7. The database city : the digital possessive and Hollywood Boulevard; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: References; title: Index.