New York Sights: Visualizing Old and New New York

Contents List of Illustrations Preface 1.Visuality and the City: Old and New New York 'The great city...makes its own...optical laws'. 'An acceleration of energies': People, Spaces, Movement and Products 2. 'Unexpected Vistas': Visualising Change Picturesque New York 'Phantasmagorias of the interior': At Home with the Leisure Class 'A Sense for Construction': Building Sites 3.'Accident and then exigency': Elevated Views Representing a System The Return of Content Abstraction and Speed The Passing of the 'Moment' 4.'Scene and Story': The City Up Close Downtown Scenes Getting Around the City Signs in the City 5.'A sense, through the eyes, of embracing possession': Views from a Distance King-size Pictures 'The attempt to take the aesthetic view': New York City as a Work of Art 'Port of New York': The Manhattan Skyline 'The city horizon was the one horizon' 6.New York, New York Bibliography Index