Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Urban Space and Representation
Space and Vision
2. City Sights: Mapping and Representing New York City
3. A Tale of Two Cities: Urban Text and Image in The Sweet Flypaper of Life
4. From the Sofa to the Crime Scene: Skycam, Local News and the Televisual City
Spaces of Difference
5. Fear and Sympathy: Charles Dickens and Urban ( Dis) Ability
6. Elegies to Harlem: Looking for Langston and Jazz
7. The Brooklyn Cigar Co. as Dialogic Public Sphere: Community and Postmodernism in Paul Auster and
8. Paranoid Spatiality: Postmodern Urbanism and American Cinema
(Post) National Spaces
9. The film de banlieue: Renegotiating the Representation of Urban Space
10. ' Whose Fucking Park? Our Fucking Park!': Bohemian Brumaires ( Paris 1848/ East Village 1988)
11. Metropolis of the Midlands
12. Singapore Soil: A Completely Different Organisation of Space
Contributors