Benjamin Chesluk

Money Jungle

Imagining the New Times Square
Fotograf: Hopp, Maggie

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Produktbeschreibung

Looks at the fierce debate over the recent transformation of New York's iconic crossroads, Times Square, between proponents of redeveloping the area to provide a big-budget, family-friendly, mainstream district and those who lament the loss of a colorful urban environment, addressing fundamental questions of city life in a contemporary urban space.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 162mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780813541792
• ISBN-10: 0813541794
• Artikelnr.: 22963997

Autorenporträt

Chesluk, Benjamin

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments About the Photographs Chapter One Brilliant Corners: The Redevelopment of Times Square\ Chapter Two Magnificent Spectacle: Real Estate, Theater, Advertising, and the History of Times Square 
Chapter Three The New Spaces of Times Square: Commerce, Social Control, and the Built Environment
Chapter Four The Midtown Community Court: Intimacy and Power in an Experimental Courtroom
Chapter Five  Times Square Ink.: Redevelopment of the Self
Chapter Six "Visible Signs of a City Out of Control": Images of Order and Disorder in Police-Community Dialogue
Chapter Seven  "It Doesn't Exist, But They're Selling It": The Debates over "Air Rights"
Chapter Eight
Conclusion: The Meanings of Times Square Notes Index