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Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 156792364X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the story of this intersection, from when Broadway was a mere dirt path known as Bloomingdale Road, through the district's decades of postwar decay, to its renewal as a tourist-friendly mecca.
Author: Lynne B. Sagalyn
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2023-11-21
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 0262376326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe illuminating evolution of the iconic space of Times Square. What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is it that, despite its many changes of character, the place has maintained a unique hold on our collective imagination? In this book, which comes twenty years after her widely acclaimed Times Square Roulette, Lynne Sagalyn masterfully tells the story of profound urban change over decades in the symbolic space that is New York City’s Times Square. Drawing on the history, sociology, and political economy of the place, Times Square Remade examines how the public-private transformation of 42nd Street at Times Square impacted the entertainment district and adjacent neighborhoods, particularly Hell’s Kitchen. Sagalyn chronicles the earliest halcyon days of 42nd Street and Times Square as the nexus of speculation and competitive theater building as well as its darkest days as vice central, and on to the years of aggressive government intervention to cleanse West 42nd Street of pornography and crime. Thematically, the author analyzes the three main forces that have shaped and reshaped Times Square—theater, real estate, and pornography—and explains the politics and economics of what got built and what has been restored or preserved. Accompanied by nearly 160 images, more than half in color, Times Square Remade is a deftly woven narrative of urban transformation that will appeal as much to the general reader and New York City enthusiast as to urbanists, city planners, architects, urban designers, and policymakers.
Author: William R. Taylor
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1996-04
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780801853371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique volume, Inventing Times Square approaches the subject of twentieth-century American city culture through a multidimensional examination of one quintessential urban space: Times Square. Ranging in time from 1905, when the crossroad was given its present name, through to the current plans for redevelopment, the authors examine Times Square as economic hub, real estate bonanza, entertainment center, advertising medium, architectural experiment, and erotic netherworld. Though the volume centers on Times Square, the essays venture much further into urban history and American social history, revealing in the process how Times Square reflected—even epitomized—America as it became an urban consumer culture.
Author: Lynne B. Sagalyn
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2003-08-29
Total Pages: 662
ISBN-13: 9780262692953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe compelling story of the politics, policies, and personalities that made Times Square's revitalization possible. The spectacularly successful transformation of Times Square has become a model for other cities. From its beginning as Longacre Square, Times Square's commercialism, signage, cultural diversity, and social tolerance have been deeply embedded in New York City's psyche. Its symbolic role guaranteed that any plan for its renewal would push the hot buttons of public controversy: free speech, property-taking through eminent domain, development density, tax subsidy, and historic preservation. In Times Square Roulette, Lynne Sagalyn debunks the myth of an overnight urban miracle performed by Disney and Mayor Giuliani, to tell the far more complex and commanding tale of a twenty-year process of public controversy, nonstop litigation, and interminable delay. She tells how the troubled execution of the original redevelopment plan provided a rare opportunity to rescript it. And timing was all: the mid-1990s saw rising international corporate interest in the city was a mecca for mass-market entertainment and synergistic merchandising. Sagalyn details the complex relationship between planning and politics and the role of market forces in shaping Times Square's redevelopment opportunities. She shows how policy was wedded to deal making and how persistent individuals and groups forged both.
Author: James Bouvier
Publisher: Dove Christian Publishers
Published: 2020-04-19
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 8835886023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe discovery of an ancient MANUSCRIPT sets an archeologist on an adventurous and dangerous quest to save the United States from a catastrophe.... Nightmare in Times Square is a gripping, page-turning mystery that is ripped from the headlines of world events in the most extraordinary period of history of all time. It promises to change the way you think about the future…forever! Obsessed with the meaning of an ancient manuscript discovered while working on a UNESCO project, archeologist Dr. Jonathan Whitfield is catapulted on an exhausting quest into the unknown packed with mystery, espionage, danger, and romance. After learning the bone-chilling secret of an elusive 3,000-year-old artifact, Dr. Whitfield is compelled to put his reputation on the line and deliver an electrifying message to the White House. But will they believe his mind-boggling story and act in time?
Author: Richard Poulin
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1610586336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative volume is the first to provide the design student, practitioner, and educator with an invaluable comprehensive reference of visual and narrative material that illustrates and evaluates the unique and important history surrounding graphic design and architecture. Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century Historyclosely examines the relationship between typography, image, symbolism, and the built environment by exploring principal themes, major technological developments, important manufacturers, and pioneering designers over the last 100 years. It is a complete resource that belongs on every designer’s bookshelf.
Author: Carolyn L. Kane
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-08-01
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0520392612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture forges a critical narrative of the ways in which illuminated light and color have played key roles in the formation of America's white imaginary. Carolyn L. Kane charts the rise of the country's urban advertisements, light empires, and neoclassical buildings in the early twentieth century; the midcentury construction of polychromatic electrographic spectacles; and their eclipse by informatically intense, invisible algorithms at the dawn of the new millennium. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis, Electrographic Architecture shows how the development of America's electrographic surround runs parallel to a new paradigm of power, property, and possession.
Author: Rebeccah Welch
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781402723834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTravelers and armchair tourists will welcome this lavish tribute to the city that never sleeps. It covers every exciting inch of New York, from the South Street Seaport and the Brooklyn Bridge to the Empire State Building and Grand Central Station, from Rockefeller Center and Lincoln Center to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yankee Stadium. Distinguished scholar Rebeccah Welch tells the story behind every fascinating piece of architecture, park, and memorial, while Elan Penn captures everything from the African Burial Ground to the stunning skyline in awe-inspiring images. In addition, historical photos and drawings present important moments in New York’s life, including the inauguration of the Statue of Liberty.
Author: Will Stockton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-11-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1000647870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly is the first introduction to queer theory written especially for students of literature. Tracking the emergence of queer theory out of gay and lesbian studies, this book pays unique attention to how queer scholars have read some of the most well-known works in the English language. Organized thematically, this book explores queer theoretical treatments of sexual identity, gender and sexual norms and normativity, negativity and utopianism, economics and neoliberalism, and AIDS activism and disability. Each chapter expounds upon foundational works in queer theory by scholars including Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Lee Edelman. Each chapter also offers readings of primary texts –ranging from the highly canonical, like John Milton’s Paradise Lost, to more contemporary works of popular fiction, like Stephen King’s ’Salem’s Lot. Along the way, An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly demonstrates how queer reading methods work alongside other methods like feminism, historicism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis. By modelling queer readings, this book invites literature students to develop queer readings of their own. It also suggests that reading queerly is not simply a matter of reading work written by queer people. Queer reading attunes us to the queerness of even the most straightforward text.
Author: LiveABC編輯群
Publisher: 希伯崙股份有限公司
Published: 2022-12-28
Total Pages: 90
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