The unfinished city : New York and the metropolitan idea /

The unfinished city : New York and the metropolitan idea /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bender, Thomas.
Imprint:	New York : New Press ; New York : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c2002.
Description:	xvi, 287 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. Popular culture -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. Political culture -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. City and town life. Civilization. Cultural policy. Intellectual life. Political culture. Popular culture. New York (N.Y.) -- Civilization. New York (N.Y.) -- Cultural policy. New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life. New York (State) -- New York. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4751164

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ISBN:	1565847369 (hc)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-276) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction: The Unfinished Metropolis
Part I. Icons of Transformation
1.. Washington Square in the Growing City
2.. Brooklyn Bridge
3.. Skyscraper and Skyline
Part II. Art, Intellect, and Public Culture
4.. Public Culture and Metropolitan Modernity
5.. Democracy and Cultural Authority
6.. Metropolitanism and the Spirit of Invention
7.. Modernist Aesthetics and Urban Politics
8.. The Arts and the World of Intellect
9.. The University and the City
Part III. Politics
10.. Cities and American Political Culture
11.. New York as a Center of Difference
12.. Cities and Citizenship
13.. The New Metropolitanism
14.. Cities, Nations, and Globalization
Credits
Notes
Index
About the Author