Urban space and cityscapes : perspectives from modern and contemporary culture / edited by Christoph Lindner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lindner, Christoph, 1971-

Series:

Questioning cities series

Questioning cities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns in art.

Public spaces--Social aspects.

Public spaces.

Space (Architecture)--Social aspects.

Space (Architecture).

Public spaces in literature.

Physical Description:

xviii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong, and Australia's Gold Coast to the sprawls of London, Paris, and Jakarta, this cross-disciplinary volume of new writing examines constructions, representations, imaginations, and theorizations of urban space and cityscapes in modern and contemporary culture. Linked by a shared concern for issues of spatiality, the topics are organized around three interrelated themes - image, text, and form - and range from the examination of cyberpunk skylines, postcolonial urbanism, and the cinema of urban disaster, to the analysis of iconic city landmarks such as the Twin Towers, the London Eye, and the Jewish Museum Berlin.

Working at the intersections of visual, material, and literary culture, Urban Space and Cityscapes seeks in particular: to provide new critical and theoretical perspectives on the city at a time when the condition and future of urbanism are major subjects of international and public concern. to examine the aesthetic, narrative, and representational strategies used to interpret the dynamic space of cities. to explore the relationship between urban space and a variety of pressing cultural concerns, including issues of identity, memory, technology, class, gender, nation, and ethnicity. With original essays from the fields of architecture, cultural theory, film, geography, literature, and visual art, Urban Space and Cityscapes offers fresh insight into the increasingly complex relationship between urban space, cultural production, and everyday life.

Contents:

1 Revisioning urban space and cityscapes / Christoph Lindner 1

Part I Image 15

2 Cityscape with Ferris wheel: Chicago, 1893 / Mark Dorrian 17

3 Seeing only corpses: vision and/of urban disaster in apocalyptic cinema / Barry Langford 38

4 New York, 9/11 / Brian Jarvis 49

5 The idea of Hong Kong: structures of attention in the City of Life / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald 63

Part II Text 75

6 Paris underground: Juan Goytisolo and the 'Situationist' city / Andrew Hussey 77

7 Negotiations of London as imperial urban space in the contemporary postcolonial novel / Sara Upstone 88

8 Reading urban spaces in African texts / Tim Woods 101

9 Reading the illegible cityscapes of postmodern fiction / Caroline Bate 112

10 The death and return of the New York skyscraper: Cather, Libeskind, and verticality / Christoph Lindner 122

Part III Form 135

11 The museum, the street, and the virtual landscape of Berlin / Julia Ng 137

12 The reversible city: exhibition(ism), chorality, and tenderness in Manhattan and Venice / Teresa Stoppani 155

13 Australia's Gold Coast: a city producing itself / Patricia Wise 177

14 Cognitive mapping the dispersed city / Stephen Cairns 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [206]-216) and index.

ISBN:

0415366526

0415366534

OCLC:

60826488

Publisher Number:

9780415366526

9780415366533