Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940

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
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/03/2015
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780195375152

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

About the Author

Christoph Lindner is Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam.