Deconstructing post-WWII New York City : the literature, art, jazz, and architecture of an emerging global capital / / Robert Bennett |
Autore | Bennett Robert <1967-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (142 p.) |
Disciplina | 700/.9747/109045 |
Collana | Studies in American popular history and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Intellectuals - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century
Arts and society - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century Modernism (Aesthetics) - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century City and town life - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century Architecture and society - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century City planning - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-415-80689-5
1-315-81088-3 1-317-79387-0 1-317-79388-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ""Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky ... Little Boxes All the Same"":Deconstructing the Socio-Spatial Regime of Post-WWII New York City; The City andthe Arts: Theorizing Urban Space and Urban Culture; Frontiers for a Free Poetic Life:The Aesthetic Politics of Urban Space; Chapter One. Constructing the Post-WWII Megalopolitan Subject:The Socio-Spatial Ideology of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair
The Futurama's ""Vaguely Miesian"" Dream Cities: The Urban Ideology ofDavid Gelernter's 1939, The Lost World of the Fair""[W]e must Bulid them the Higways so they can Sell us the Cars"": Deconstructingthe Fair's Corporate Edeology; The Future will be ""AsAmerican as Coca-Cola"": The ""Goddam Battle Zone"" of Miles Beller's Dream of Venus; Chapter Two. ""Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs!"": Deconstructing the Architexture of International Style Modernism; From Industrial to Postindustrial Urbanism Deconstructing the International Style Modernist Corporate Skyscraper:George Oppen's Critique of Lever HouseChapter Three. The ""eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered thecities"": The Liquid Geometries of Post-WWII Jazz Literature; Radicalizing Jazz Literature: From the Beat Generation tothe Black Arts Movement; Chapter Four.""I am for an art that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum"": Envisioning Alternative Utopic Urban Spaces; ""Literature as Destruction of Space"": The Precarious Architecture ofBarbara Quest's Spatial Imagination ""Everything / Suddenly Honks: It is 12:40 of / a Thursday"": Frank O'Hara'sNew York SublimeConclusion:""Less is a bore"": Imagining the Postmodern City; Bibliography; Index |
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Deconstructing post-WWII New York City : the literature, art, jazz, and architecture of an emerging global capital / / Robert Bennett |
Autore | Bennett Robert <1967-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (142 p.) |
Disciplina | 700/.9747/109045 |
Collana | Studies in American popular history and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Intellectuals - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century
Arts and society - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century Modernism (Aesthetics) - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century City and town life - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century Architecture and society - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century City planning - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
0-415-80689-5
1-315-81088-3 1-317-79387-0 1-317-79388-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ""Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky ... Little Boxes All the Same"":Deconstructing the Socio-Spatial Regime of Post-WWII New York City; The City andthe Arts: Theorizing Urban Space and Urban Culture; Frontiers for a Free Poetic Life:The Aesthetic Politics of Urban Space; Chapter One. Constructing the Post-WWII Megalopolitan Subject:The Socio-Spatial Ideology of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair
The Futurama's ""Vaguely Miesian"" Dream Cities: The Urban Ideology ofDavid Gelernter's 1939, The Lost World of the Fair""[W]e must Bulid them the Higways so they can Sell us the Cars"": Deconstructingthe Fair's Corporate Edeology; The Future will be ""AsAmerican as Coca-Cola"": The ""Goddam Battle Zone"" of Miles Beller's Dream of Venus; Chapter Two. ""Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs!"": Deconstructing the Architexture of International Style Modernism; From Industrial to Postindustrial Urbanism Deconstructing the International Style Modernist Corporate Skyscraper:George Oppen's Critique of Lever HouseChapter Three. The ""eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered thecities"": The Liquid Geometries of Post-WWII Jazz Literature; Radicalizing Jazz Literature: From the Beat Generation tothe Black Arts Movement; Chapter Four.""I am for an art that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum"": Envisioning Alternative Utopic Urban Spaces; ""Literature as Destruction of Space"": The Precarious Architecture ofBarbara Quest's Spatial Imagination ""Everything / Suddenly Honks: It is 12:40 of / a Thursday"": Frank O'Hara'sNew York SublimeConclusion:""Less is a bore"": Imagining the Postmodern City; Bibliography; Index |
Altri titoli varianti |
Deconstructing post-World War II New York City
Deconstructing post-WW Two New York City |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790832903321 |
Bennett Robert <1967-, >
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 | ||
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Deconstructing post-WWII New York City : the literature, art, jazz, and architecture of an emerging global capital / / Robert Bennett |
Autore | Bennett Robert <1967-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (142 p.) |
Disciplina |
700/.9747/109045
700.9747109045 |
Collana | Studies in American popular history and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Intellectuals - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century
Arts and society - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century Modernism (Aesthetics) - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century City and town life - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century Architecture and society - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century City planning - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
0-415-80689-5
1-315-81088-3 1-317-79387-0 1-317-79388-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ""Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky ... Little Boxes All the Same"":Deconstructing the Socio-Spatial Regime of Post-WWII New York City; The City andthe Arts: Theorizing Urban Space and Urban Culture; Frontiers for a Free Poetic Life:The Aesthetic Politics of Urban Space; Chapter One. Constructing the Post-WWII Megalopolitan Subject:The Socio-Spatial Ideology of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair
The Futurama's ""Vaguely Miesian"" Dream Cities: The Urban Ideology ofDavid Gelernter's 1939, The Lost World of the Fair""[W]e must Bulid them the Higways so they can Sell us the Cars"": Deconstructingthe Fair's Corporate Edeology; The Future will be ""AsAmerican as Coca-Cola"": The ""Goddam Battle Zone"" of Miles Beller's Dream of Venus; Chapter Two. ""Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs!"": Deconstructing the Architexture of International Style Modernism; From Industrial to Postindustrial Urbanism Deconstructing the International Style Modernist Corporate Skyscraper:George Oppen's Critique of Lever HouseChapter Three. The ""eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered thecities"": The Liquid Geometries of Post-WWII Jazz Literature; Radicalizing Jazz Literature: From the Beat Generation tothe Black Arts Movement; Chapter Four.""I am for an art that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum"": Envisioning Alternative Utopic Urban Spaces; ""Literature as Destruction of Space"": The Precarious Architecture ofBarbara Quest's Spatial Imagination ""Everything / Suddenly Honks: It is 12:40 of / a Thursday"": Frank O'Hara'sNew York SublimeConclusion:""Less is a bore"": Imagining the Postmodern City; Bibliography; Index |
Altri titoli varianti |
Deconstructing post-World War II New York City
Deconstructing post-WW Two New York City |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809842903321 |
Bennett Robert <1967-, >
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Dry Manhattan [[electronic resource] ] : prohibition in New York City / / Michael A. Lerner |
Autore | Lerner Michael A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.4109747109042 |
Soggetto topico | Prohibition - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-674-04009-0 |
Classificazione | MS 6410 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Dry Crusade -- 2. A New Era? -- 3. A Hopeless and Thankless Task -- 4. The Brewers of Bigotry -- 5. The Itch to Try New Things -- 6. Vote as You Drink -- 7. I Represent the Women of America! -- 8. Hootch Joints in Harlem -- 9. Al Smith, the Wet Hope of the Nation -- 10. The End of the Party -- 11. A Surging Wet Tide -- 12. The Wet Convention and the New Deal -- Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455100103321 |
Lerner Michael A
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Dry Manhattan [[electronic resource] ] : prohibition in New York City / / Michael A. Lerner |
Autore | Lerner Michael A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.4109747109042 |
Soggetto topico | Prohibition - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century |
ISBN | 0-674-04009-0 |
Classificazione | MS 6410 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Dry Crusade -- 2. A New Era? -- 3. A Hopeless and Thankless Task -- 4. The Brewers of Bigotry -- 5. The Itch to Try New Things -- 6. Vote as You Drink -- 7. I Represent the Women of America! -- 8. Hootch Joints in Harlem -- 9. Al Smith, the Wet Hope of the Nation -- 10. The End of the Party -- 11. A Surging Wet Tide -- 12. The Wet Convention and the New Deal -- Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778161003321 |
Lerner Michael A
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Dry Manhattan [[electronic resource] ] : prohibition in New York City / / Michael A. Lerner |
Autore | Lerner Michael A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.4109747109042 |
Soggetto topico | Prohibition - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century |
ISBN | 0-674-04009-0 |
Classificazione | MS 6410 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Dry Crusade -- 2. A New Era? -- 3. A Hopeless and Thankless Task -- 4. The Brewers of Bigotry -- 5. The Itch to Try New Things -- 6. Vote as You Drink -- 7. I Represent the Women of America! -- 8. Hootch Joints in Harlem -- 9. Al Smith, the Wet Hope of the Nation -- 10. The End of the Party -- 11. A Surging Wet Tide -- 12. The Wet Convention and the New Deal -- Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818118203321 |
Lerner Michael A
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Ed Koch and the rebuilding of New York City [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan Soffer |
Autore | Soffer Jonathan M. <1956-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (525 p.) |
Disciplina |
974.7/1043092
B |
Collana | The Columbia history of urban life |
Soggetto topico | Mayors - New York (State) - New York |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-87230-3
9786612872303 0-231-52090-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Struggling to Be Middle Class -- 3. It Takes a Village (1949-58) -- 4. "Rhymes with Notch" (1959-64) -- 5. The Man Who Beat Carmine De Sapio -- 6. A Rebel with Reason -- 7. Koch's Corridor (1969-76) -- 8. "A Liberal with Sanity" -- 9. New York -- 10. The 1977 Mayoral Election -- 11. The Critical First Term (1978-81) -- 12. The Politics of Race and Party -- 13. Shake-up (1979-80) -- 14. Controlled Fusion -- 15. Governor Koch? (1982-83) -- 16. Larger Than Life (1984-85) -- 17. A New Spatial Order -- 18. Homelessness -- 19. The Koch Housing Plan (1986-89) -- 20. AIDS -- 21. Crime and Police Issues (1978-84) -- 22. The Ward Years -- 23. Don't Follow County Leaders, and Watch Your Parking Meters (1986) -- 24. Koch's Endgame (1988-89) -- 25. Epilogue -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458732503321 |
Soffer Jonathan M. <1956->
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Ed Koch and the rebuilding of New York City [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan Soffer |
Autore | Soffer Jonathan M. <1956-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (525 p.) |
Disciplina |
974.7/1043092
B |
Collana | The Columbia history of urban life |
Soggetto topico | Mayors - New York (State) - New York |
ISBN |
1-282-87230-3
9786612872303 0-231-52090-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Struggling to Be Middle Class -- 3. It Takes a Village (1949-58) -- 4. "Rhymes with Notch" (1959-64) -- 5. The Man Who Beat Carmine De Sapio -- 6. A Rebel with Reason -- 7. Koch's Corridor (1969-76) -- 8. "A Liberal with Sanity" -- 9. New York -- 10. The 1977 Mayoral Election -- 11. The Critical First Term (1978-81) -- 12. The Politics of Race and Party -- 13. Shake-up (1979-80) -- 14. Controlled Fusion -- 15. Governor Koch? (1982-83) -- 16. Larger Than Life (1984-85) -- 17. A New Spatial Order -- 18. Homelessness -- 19. The Koch Housing Plan (1986-89) -- 20. AIDS -- 21. Crime and Police Issues (1978-84) -- 22. The Ward Years -- 23. Don't Follow County Leaders, and Watch Your Parking Meters (1986) -- 24. Koch's Endgame (1988-89) -- 25. Epilogue -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791683803321 |
Soffer Jonathan M. <1956->
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Ed Koch and the rebuilding of New York City [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan Soffer |
Autore | Soffer Jonathan M. <1956-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (525 p.) |
Disciplina |
974.7/1043092
B |
Collana | The Columbia history of urban life |
Soggetto topico | Mayors - New York (State) - New York |
ISBN |
1-282-87230-3
9786612872303 0-231-52090-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Struggling to Be Middle Class -- 3. It Takes a Village (1949-58) -- 4. "Rhymes with Notch" (1959-64) -- 5. The Man Who Beat Carmine De Sapio -- 6. A Rebel with Reason -- 7. Koch's Corridor (1969-76) -- 8. "A Liberal with Sanity" -- 9. New York -- 10. The 1977 Mayoral Election -- 11. The Critical First Term (1978-81) -- 12. The Politics of Race and Party -- 13. Shake-up (1979-80) -- 14. Controlled Fusion -- 15. Governor Koch? (1982-83) -- 16. Larger Than Life (1984-85) -- 17. A New Spatial Order -- 18. Homelessness -- 19. The Koch Housing Plan (1986-89) -- 20. AIDS -- 21. Crime and Police Issues (1978-84) -- 22. The Ward Years -- 23. Don't Follow County Leaders, and Watch Your Parking Meters (1986) -- 24. Koch's Endgame (1988-89) -- 25. Epilogue -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817794303321 |
Soffer Jonathan M. <1956->
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Gotham rising : New York in the 1930s / / Jules Stewart ; foreword by Amor Towles |
Autore | Stewart Jules |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 974.71042 |
Soggetto topico |
Nineteen thirties
History, 20th Century Cities Local Government City Planning |
ISBN |
1-350-98664-X
1-78673-043-X 1-78672-043-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Brother, can you spare a dime? -- The little flower and Goliath -- Trouble in the streets -- 'I can't figger what dis city is comin' to' -- All that jazz -- Gotham gets a facelift -- The thing about skyscrapers -- Seventy-seventh floor, please -- Anything you can do -- You're the top -- They all laughed at Rockefeller Center -- Village life -- Huddled masses yearning to breathe. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798958103321 |
Stewart Jules
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