The Urban Spectator
American Concept-Cities from Kodak to Google
Eric Gordon

Dartmouth College Press
University Press of New England



Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• More Than the Sum of Its Parts – The White City and Amateur Photography
• Picture Thinking – Kodaking and the Art of Nature
• City in Motion – Early Cinema and Times Square
• Scaling Up – The ‘‘Speculative Architecture’’ of 1930s New York
• The Operative City – The Machine Intelligence of Urban Renewal
• Rerun City – Nostalgia and Urban Narrative
• The Database City – The Digital Possessive and Hollywood Boulevard
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Index




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