Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195375152)

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.

Author: Christoph Lindner
ISBN-10: 0195375157
ISBN-13: 9780195375152
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/03/2015
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2015