Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces - the skyline, the sidewalk, the slum, and the subway - have come to emblematize key aspects of the modern urban condition.
Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces - the skyline, the sidewalk, the slum, and the subway - have come to emblematize key aspects of the modern urban condition.
Christoph Lindner writes about cities, visual culture, creative practices, and globalization. He is Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam and founding Director of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis. His previous publications include Paris-Amsterdam Underground: Essays on Cultural Resistance, Subversion, and Diversion; Globalization, Violence, and the Visual Culture of Cities; Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale; Urban Space and Cityscapes: Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture; Fictions of Commodity Culture: From the Victorian to the Postmodern; The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader.
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Acknowledgements Introduction Archive City Changing New York Modern City, Urban Imaginary Skylines and Sidewalks After City Part 1 - Skylines New York Vertical The City from Above Requiem for the Twin Towers Building the Skyline: A Brief Architectural History Text and the City New York Dreamscapes Fantasy Island After-Images of New York Revisioning the Skyscraper Cinema and the Vertical City The City from Greenwich Village Metrotopia The Empty City New York Undead Part 2 - Sidewalks New York Horizontal Sidewalks and Public Space A Short History of the Grid Street-Walking Broadway Promenade Manhattan Flanêuse Blasé Metropolitan Attitude City of Slums Sidewalks and Fear Tales of the Tenement New York Underground Elevated City High Line, Lowline Subway City Underground Fantasies Slow Street Afterword Bibliography
Acknowledgements Introduction Archive City Changing New York Modern City, Urban Imaginary Skylines and Sidewalks After City Part 1 - Skylines New York Vertical The City from Above Requiem for the Twin Towers Building the Skyline: A Brief Architectural History Text and the City New York Dreamscapes Fantasy Island After-Images of New York Revisioning the Skyscraper Cinema and the Vertical City The City from Greenwich Village Metrotopia The Empty City New York Undead Part 2 - Sidewalks New York Horizontal Sidewalks and Public Space A Short History of the Grid Street-Walking Broadway Promenade Manhattan Flanêuse Blasé Metropolitan Attitude City of Slums Sidewalks and Fear Tales of the Tenement New York Underground Elevated City High Line, Lowline Subway City Underground Fantasies Slow Street Afterword Bibliography
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