Title & Author:

The American metropolis : image and inspiration / edited by Hans Krabbendam, Marja Roholl, Tity de Vries ; with contributions from Susan Clarke [and others].

Publication:

Amsterdam : VU University Press, 2001.

Description:

253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

European contributions to American studies ; 45

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
United States urban history : theoretical graveyard or interpretative heaven? / Timothy Gilfoyle -- Two cities/two Chicago's : religious confrontation between 1880-1920 / James Gilbert -- Sign-of-the-times square : the spectacle of urban transformation in the 1990s / Bart Eeckhout -- Winners take all : Atlanta's Olympic reconstruction / Drew Whitelegg -- People's picture gallery : outdoor advertising, class, and control of public space / Ellen Garvey -- Urban wonderlands : siting modernity in turn-of-the century amusement parks / Lauren Rabinovitz -- Arcadia or armageddon? : changing images of surburbia, Los Angeles, 1960s-1990s / Dirk De Meyer -- Rise of urban lifestyle magazines and new city branding strategies / Miriam Greenberg -- Lost in "the Dada city" : the New York City fiction of Robert M. Coates / Mathilde Roza -- From jungle to hive : the American metropolis in postmodern science fiction / Pavel Frelik.
Exodus from coketown : Mumford's The Culture of Cities and the Italian liberal elites, 1948-1955 / Michela Rosso -- European visions of the future in the American modern(ist) metropolis / Anna Notaro -- Lost in the city : the new york of Berenice Abbott and Edward Hopper / John Raeburn -- Highland Park, Los Angeles : community development through theater / Eugene Van Erven -- Funk music : an expression of black life in Dayton, Ohio and the American metropolis / Portia Maultsby -- Can't forget the Motor City : the movie of Motown from Detroit to Los Angeles / Jaap Kooijman -- Artistic subcultures in the metropolis and the chaotic city experience : the case of the New York music scene of the 1980s / Bart Keunen -- American cities at the Millenium / Susan Clarke.
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ISBN:

9053836942 (paperback)
9789053836941 (paperback)

Subject:

City and town life United States History 20th century.
Popular culture United States History 20th century.
Urbanization United States History 20th century.
Vie urbaine États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Culture populaire États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Urbanisation États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
City and town life.
Manners and customs.
Popular culture.
Urbanization.
Geschichte
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtforschung
Städtebau
Aufsatzsammlung
Steden.
Stadscultuur.
City and town life United States History 19th century.
Popular culture United States History 19th century.
Urbanization United States History 19th century.
Cities and towns in art
Cities and towns in literature
United States Social life and customs 20th century.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes 20e siècle.
United States.
USA
United States Social life and customs 19th century

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Added entries:

Krabbendam, Hans, 1964-
Roholl, Marja.
Vries, Tity de, 1953-
Krabbendam, Johannes Leendert, 1964-
Clarke, Susan E., 1945-
De Meyer, Dirk, 1961-
European contributions to American studies ; 45.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224756
Call No.: HT123 .A6 2001
Status: Available