Titre et auteur:

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.

Série(s):

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)

Sujet:

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.
United States Social life and customs 20th century.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes 20e siècle.
United States.
USA

Classification/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Vedettes secondaires:

Krabbendam, Hans, 1964-
Roholl, Marja.
Vries, Tity de, 1953-
European contributions to American studies ; 45.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 224756
Cote: HT123 .A6 2001
Statut: Disponible