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Author Tochterman, Brian, author.
Title The dying city : postwar New York and the ideology of fear / Brian Tochterman.
Publisher Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Copyright date ©2017



Descript 1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages)
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Contents Highbrow vs. hard-boiled: literary visions of New York, 1947-1952. E.B. White's cosmopolis ; Mickey Spillane's necropolis -- Cancer and death: New York narratives in planning theory, 1953-1961. The case for municipal surgery ; On planning necropolis -- Intellectuals interrogate necropolis, 1961-1967. Farewell to the universal city ; Untangling the pathologies of ungovernability -- Detour to Fun City: cultural responses to the death of New York, 1967-1985. Fear City on film ; The lure of decay.
ISBN 9781469633077 (electronic bk.)
1469633078 (electronic bk.)
9781469633084 (electronic bk.)
1469633086 (electronic bk.)
9781469633053
1469633051
9781469633060
146963306X
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Author Tochterman, Brian, author.
Series Studies in United States culture
Studies in United States culture.
Subject Fear -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York.
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- In literature.
New York (N.Y.) -- In motion pictures.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1951-
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951.
Descript 1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Highbrow vs. hard-boiled: literary visions of New York, 1947-1952. E.B. White's cosmopolis ; Mickey Spillane's necropolis -- Cancer and death: New York narratives in planning theory, 1953-1961. The case for municipal surgery ; On planning necropolis -- Intellectuals interrogate necropolis, 1961-1967. Farewell to the universal city ; Untangling the pathologies of ungovernability -- Detour to Fun City: cultural responses to the death of New York, 1967-1985. Fear City on film ; The lure of decay.
ISBN 9781469633077 (electronic bk.)
1469633078 (electronic bk.)
9781469633084 (electronic bk.)
1469633086 (electronic bk.)
9781469633053
1469633051
9781469633060
146963306X
Author Tochterman, Brian, author.
Series Studies in United States culture
Studies in United States culture.
Subject Fear -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York.
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- In literature.
New York (N.Y.) -- In motion pictures.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1951-
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951.

Subject Fear -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York.
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- In literature.
New York (N.Y.) -- In motion pictures.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1951-
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951.
Descript 1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Highbrow vs. hard-boiled: literary visions of New York, 1947-1952. E.B. White's cosmopolis ; Mickey Spillane's necropolis -- Cancer and death: New York narratives in planning theory, 1953-1961. The case for municipal surgery ; On planning necropolis -- Intellectuals interrogate necropolis, 1961-1967. Farewell to the universal city ; Untangling the pathologies of ungovernability -- Detour to Fun City: cultural responses to the death of New York, 1967-1985. Fear City on film ; The lure of decay.
ISBN 9781469633077 (electronic bk.)
1469633078 (electronic bk.)
9781469633084 (electronic bk.)
1469633086 (electronic bk.)
9781469633053
1469633051
9781469633060
146963306X

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