Main entry:

Bender, Thomas, 1944- author.

Title & Author:

The unfinished city : New York and the metropolitan idea / Thomas Bender.

Publication:

New York : New Press, 2002.
New York : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company.
©2002

Description:

xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index.
Introduction: the unfinished metropolis -- Icons of Transformation. Washington Square in the growing city -- Brooklyn Bridge -- Skyscraper and skyline -- Art, Intellect, and Public Culture. Public culture and metropolitan modernity -- Democracy and cultural authority -- Metropolitanism and the spirit of invention -- Modernist aesthetics and urban politics -- The arts and the world of intellect -- The University and the city -- Politics. Cities and American political culture -- New York as a center of difference -- Cities and citizenship -- The new metropolitanism -- Cities, nations, and globalization.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

1565847369 (hardback)
9781565847361 (hardback)

Subject:

City and town life New York (State) New York History.
Popular culture New York (State) New York History.
Political culture New York (State) New York History.
Vie urbaine New York (État) New York Histoire.
Culture populaire New York (État) New York Histoire.
City and town life
Civilization
Cultural policy
Intellectual life
Political culture
Popular culture
Stadtentwicklung
Kulturpolitik
Cidades (história) New york (ny)
Política cultural New york (N.Y.)
Cultura popular New york (N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.) Civilization.
New York (N.Y.) Cultural policy.
New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life.
New York (State) New York
New York, NY
New York (N.Y.) (HistÓria)
New York (N.Y.)
Cities United States New York (State) New York 1800-2000.
Popular culture United States New York (State) New York.
Political culture United States New York (State) New York.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 223376
Call No.: F128.35 .B46 2002
Status: Available