Utilizing an innovative framework as an international, interdisciplinary dialogue, the volume provides an inventory of contemporary thought about the American city across a wide range of topics, including the design of transportation systems, workplaces, and housing to public art, urban ruins, and futurist visions.
Utilizing an innovative framework as an international, interdisciplinary dialogue, the volume provides an inventory of contemporary thought about the American city across a wide range of topics, including the design of transportation systems, workplaces, and housing to public art, urban ruins, and futurist visions.
Miles Orvell is Professor of English and American Studies at Temple University and author of The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 and The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community. He is also coeditor of Public Space and the Ideology of Place in American Culture. Klaus Benesch is Professor of English and American Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, author of Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance, and coeditor of Space in America: Theory History Culture. Dolores Hayden is Professor of Architecture and American Studies at Yale University, former president of the Urban History Association, and author of many books, including The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword —Dolores Hayden Introduction —Miles Orvell and Klaus Benesch Chapter 1. Energy —David E. Nye Chapter 2. Sustainability —Andrew Ross Chapter 3. The Multicultural City —Mabel O. Wilson Chapter 4. Ruins —Miles Orvell Chapter 5. Aesthetic Space —David M. Lubin Chapter 6. Designing the City —Albena Yaneva Chapter 7. Mobility —Klaus Benesch Chapter 8. The Digital City —Malcolm McCullough Chapter 9. Future City —Jeffrey L. Meikle Conclusion Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
Foreword —Dolores Hayden Introduction —Miles Orvell and Klaus Benesch Chapter 1. Energy —David E. Nye Chapter 2. Sustainability —Andrew Ross Chapter 3. The Multicultural City —Mabel O. Wilson Chapter 4. Ruins —Miles Orvell Chapter 5. Aesthetic Space —David M. Lubin Chapter 6. Designing the City —Albena Yaneva Chapter 7. Mobility —Klaus Benesch Chapter 8. The Digital City —Malcolm McCullough Chapter 9. Future City —Jeffrey L. Meikle Conclusion Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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