URBAN SPACE AND CITYSCAPES (Questioning Cities)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedications......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Foreword: Cityscapes as Cityspaces......Page 16
1. Revisioning Urban Space and Cityscapes......Page 20
Part I: Image......Page 34
2. Cityscape with Ferris Wheel: Chicago, 1893......Page 36
3. Seeing only Corpses: Vision and/of Urban Disaster in Apocalyptic Cinema......Page 57
4. New York, 9/11......Page 68
5. The Idea of Hong Kong: Structures of Attention in the City of Life......Page 82
Part II: Text......Page 94
6. Paris Underground: Juan Goytisolo and the \'Situationist\' City......Page 96
7. Negotiations of London as Imperial Urban Space in the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel......Page 107
8. Reading Urban Spaces in African Texts......Page 120
9. Reading the Illegible Cityscapes of Postmodern Fiction......Page 131
10. The Death and Return of the New York Skyscraper: Cather, Libesking, and Verticality......Page 141
Part III: Form......Page 154
11. The Museum, the Street, and the Virtual Landscape of Berlin......Page 156
12. The Reversible City: Exhibition(ism), Chorality and Tenderness in Manhattan and Venice......Page 174
13. Australia\'s Gold Coast: A City Producing Itself......Page 196
14. Cognitive Mapping the Dispersed City......Page 211
Bibliography......Page 225
Index......Page 236