Urban space and cityscapes : perspectives from modern and contemporary culture / edited by Christoph Lindner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Revisioning urban space and cityscapes / Christoph Lindner -- Cityscape with Ferris wheel : Chicago, 1893 / Mark Dorrian -- Seeing only corpses : vision and/of urban disaster in apocalyptic cinema / Barry Langford -- New York, 9/11 / Brian Jarvis -- The idea of Hong Kong : structures of attention in the city of life / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald -- Paris underground : Juan Goytisolo and the 'situationist' city / Andrew Hussey -- Negotiations of London as imperial urban space in the contemporary postcolonial novel / Sara Upstone -- Reading urban spaces in African texts / Tim Woods -- Reading the illegible cityscapes of postmodern fiction / Caroline Bate -- The death and return of the New York skyscraper : Cather, Libeskind, and verticality / Christoph Lindner -- The museum, the street, and the virtual landscape of Berlin / Julia Ng -- The reversible city : exhibition(ism), chorality and tenderness in Manhattan and Venice / Teresa Stoppani -- Australia's Gold Coast : a city producing itself / Patricia Wise -- Cognitive mapping the dispersed city / Stephen Cairns.