Imagining New York City : literature, urbanism, and the visual arts, 1890-1940

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Label

Imagining New York City : literature, urbanism, and the visual arts, 1890-1940

Title remainder

literature, urbanism, and the visual arts, 1890-1940

Statement of responsibility

Christoph Lindner

Creator

• Lindner, Christoph, 1971-

Author

• Lindner, Christoph, 1971-

Subject

• Buildings -- Social aspects -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• City and town life -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General
• New York (N.Y.) -- In art
• New York (N.Y.) -- In literature
• New York (N.Y.) -- In motion pictures
• New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
• ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
• Public spaces -- Social aspects -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• Sidewalks -- Social aspects -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• Social change -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects -- New York (State) | New York -- History
• PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
• Art

Genre

• In art
• Art

Language

eng

Summary

"Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the place and 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, the book 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"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography