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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.
Imagining New York City

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. It also considers the ways in which cultural developments 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.

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

  • Christoph Lindner
  • Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014
  • ISBN: 978 01 953 7515 2