Title & Author:

Imaging the city : continuing struggles and new directions / edited by Lawrence J. Vale and Sam Bass Warner Jr.

Publication:

Description:

xxiii, 519 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-488) and index.
Image construction in premodern cities / Julian Beinart -- Place marketing : using media to promote cities / Briavel Holcomb -- From flames to flowers : the role of planning in re-imaging the South Bronx / Eugenie Ladner Birch -- Re-imaging the Rust Belt : can Cleveland sustain the renaissance? / Patricia Burgess, Ruth Durack, and Edward W. Hill -- Skyscraper competition in Asia : new city images and new city form / Larry R. Ford -- The images of commonplace living in modern city-regions / Judith A. Martin and Sam Bass Warner Jr. -- Tales of Manhattan : mapping the urban imagination through Hollywood film / Henry Jenkins -- Image renewal : polemic and presentation in the urban theory of Rem Koolhaas and Leon Krier / Sandy Isenstadt -- Anti-urbanist city images and new media culture / Thomas J. Campanella -- Narrative places and the new practice of urban design / Dennis Frenchman -- The city in cyberspace / Anne Beamish -- Urban images on children's television / Lawrence J. Vale and Julia R. Dobrow -- Urban counter-images : community activism meets public art / Deborah Karasov -- Ephemera, temporary urbanism, and imaging / J. Mark Schuster -- Rating place-ratings / John de Monchaux -- New public realms : re-imaging the city-region / Lawrence J. Vale.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Planners face a controversial task because their professional role requires them to be spokespersons for the public interest. In a welter of conflicting pictures and voices, how might the public interest be discovered? Once identified, how might it be expressed so that competing publics attend to it? There are no easy answers, but the experience of planners today suggests ways of working and innovations of promise. The focus on planning practice prompted the editors to analyze images that are now at work in our cities. For Vale and Warner, all city design and constructions offer material that people should include in images of their environment. The built and building city are part of the experience of all city dwellers; it is theirs to incorporate, interpret, or ignore. Essays included in this text trace the interplay between physical objects of planners and architects and the social experience and outlooks of image makers and their audiences. Imaging the City explores urban image making from civic boosterism of medieval cities to iconic imagery of Times Square. Vale and Warner bring together urban historians, geographers, city planners, architects, and cultural commentators to analyze the creation of urban imagery from the signature skyscrapers of Kuala Lumpur to the re-creation of the South Bronx and the use of city images in film, literature, television, and on the Internet. Urban dwellers, urban planners, architects, municipal officials, sociologists, urban historians--all will perceive their worlds with a heightened sense of awareness after reading this book.

Resources:
Table of contents
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ISBN:

0882851691 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780882851693 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0882851705 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780882851709 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning History 20th century.
City planning Social aspects.
Cities and towns in mass media.
Villes dans les médias.
City planning.
Stadtplanung
Aufsatzsammlung
Stadsplanning.
Beeldvorming.
Steden.
Urbanisme Histoire.
Villes.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Added entries:

Vale, Lawrence J., 1959-
Warner, Sam Bass, 1928-2023

Holdings:

Location: Library main 220343
Call No.: NA9095 .I4 2001
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available