A 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.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: William R. Taylor
EAN: 9780801853371
COUNTRY: United States
PAGES: 496
WEIGHT: 907 g
HEIGHT: 235 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Johns Hopkins University Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 1996-05-27
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GENRE: ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
WIDTH: 165 mm
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Book Themes:
United States of America, USA, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Cultural studies, Urban communities
William Taylor has taught at Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Chicago, and the State University of New York-Stony Brook. A fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, he is the author of In Pursuit of Gotham and Cavalier and Yankee.