Brooklyn bridge : a cultural history
Publication details: London Rutgers University Press 2005Description: xi,307,ipISBN:- 9780813535876
- 624.2 HAW
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | CEPT Library | Faculty of Architecture | 624.2 HAW | Available | 018712 |
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction:
Culture, History, and the Brooklyn Bridge 3
1. Manufacturing Consensus, Practicing Exclusion:
Ideology and the Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge 15
2. "The Eyes of All People Are upon Us'':
Tourists, Immigrants, and the Brooklyn Bridge 42
3. The View of the Bridge:
Perspective, Context, and the Urban Observer 90
4. American Memory:
History, Fiction, and the Brooklyn Bridge 145
5. Revision and Dissent:
The Brooklyn Bridge from Its Centennial until the Present 192
Epilogue:
Crisis and Change: The Brooklyn Bridge in the Wake of Terror 225
Notes 241
Index 289
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