Rethinking the American City

Miles Orvell is Professor of English and American Studies at Temple University and author of The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 and The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community. He is also coeditor of Public Space and the Ideology of Place in American Culture. Klaus Benesch is Professor of English and American Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, author of Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance, and coeditor of Space in America: Theory History Culture. Dolores Hayden is Professor of Architecture and American Studies at Yale University, former president of the Urban History Association, and author of many books, including The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History.

Foreword -Dolores Hayden Introduction -Miles Orvell and Klaus Benesch Chapter 1. Energy -David E. Nye Chapter 2. Sustainability -Andrew Ross Chapter 3. The Multicultural City -Mabel O. Wilson Chapter 4. Ruins -Miles Orvell Chapter 5. Aesthetic Space -David M. Lubin Chapter 6. Designing the City -Albena Yaneva Chapter 7. Mobility -Klaus Benesch Chapter 8. The Digital City -Malcolm McCullough Chapter 9. Future City -Jeffrey L. Meikle Conclusion Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

"While specialists in the history of the American city will enjoy this collection of essays and the provocative dialogue they spark, these investigations of the processes of shaping space will also appeal to readers in many interdisciplinary programs including American studies, cultural studies, urban studies, visual culture, technology studies, and environmental studies." (From the Foreword, by Dolores Hayden)