ABSTRACT

Urban conditions are crucial to our experience of modernity, and, as reflected by art, literature and popular culture, have influenced contemporary ideas of what urban life is about.
The Urban Lifeworld contributes to our understanding of the cultural role of cities by offering new insight into the analysis of urban experience. Two exceptional cities, New York and Copenhagen, are the focus of this exploration of cultural representations of urban life, which investigates the contrasts between perceptions and formation of the urban lifeworld.
Integrating sociological, aesthetic and anthropological approaches to urban questions, this collection of essays presents a new vision of the cityscape which will enrich both academic debate and public life.

chapter |41 pages

Introduction

part I|161 pages

Formation

chapter 1|37 pages

City: Culture: Nature

The New York Wilderness and the Urban Sublime

chapter 2|12 pages

Framing the Urban Development

Choices: Policies, Planners, Market, Participation

chapter 3|21 pages

The Layered City

chapter 4|21 pages

Copenhagen

Formation, Change and Urban Life

chapter 6|27 pages

Midtown Manhattan at Midcentury

Lever House and the International Style in the City 1

part II|72 pages

Perception

chapter 7|11 pages

Permeable Boundaries

Domesticity in Post-war New York

chapter 8|19 pages

The Machine in the City

Phenomenology and Everyday Life in New York

chapter 9|15 pages

Imaging New York

Representations and Perceptions of the City

part III|108 pages

Representation

chapter 11|14 pages

The Ashcan Artists

Journalism, Art and Metropolitan Life 1

chapter 12|21 pages

Imagined Urbanity

Novelistic Representations of Copenhagen

chapter 13|16 pages

Urban Life as Entertainment

New York and Copenhagen in the Mid-nineteenth Century