Imagining New York City | Lindner Christoph
6 april 2016
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. It also considers the ways in which cultural developments 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.
Imagining New York City. Literature, Urbanism and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940
- Christoph Lindner
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014
- ISBN: 978 01 953 7515 2