Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Photographs -- 1. Introduction: Urban Space and Representation -- Space and Representation -- Space and Vision -- Spaces of Difference -- ( Post) National Spaces -- Notes -- Space and Vision -- 2. City Sights: Mapping and Representing New York City -- Notes -- 3. A Tale of Two Cities: Urban Text and Image in The Sweet Flypaper of Life -- Photographic Territory -- A Photographic Narrative -- Photographic Space -- Photographic Ambiguity -- Notes -- 4. From the Sofa to the Crime Scene: Skycam, Local News and the Televisual City -- Life Through the Tube -- The Skycam -- The News in Your Front Yard -- Notes -- Spaces of Difference -- 5. Fear and Sympathy: Charles Dickens and Urban ( Dis) Ability -- Physical Impairment and Disability -- A Christmas Carol: Disability, Charity and the Domesticated Urban -- The Old Curiosity Shop: Urban Ability -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Elegies to Harlem: Looking for Langston and Jazz -- Racialised Urbanity -- An Urban Snapshot -- Looking At or For? ? -- Bitch or Dumpling Girl? -- Notes -- 7. The Brooklyn Cigar Co. as Dialogic Public Sphere: Community and Postmodernism in Paul Auster and Wayne Wang's Smoke and Bl -- Maps and Movement -- A Time for Stories -- Open Endings -- Notes -- 8. Paranoid Spatiality: Postmodern Urbanism and American Cinema -- Paranoid Spatiality -- White Noise -- Helter Skelter -- The Distributed Panopticon -- Notes -- (Post) National Spaces -- 9. The film de banlieue: Renegotiating the Representation of Urban Space -- The Banlieue and the Ghetto -- Space on the Margins -- Inside and Outside -- Centre and Periphery -- Filmography -- Notes -- 10. ' Whose Fucking Park? Our Fucking Park!': Bohemian Brumaires ( Paris 1848/ East Village 1988) , Gentrification, and the R -- Mind the 'Rent Gap' -- Landgrabs and Manhunts -- Bohemian Brumaires and the Authoritarian State.

The Representational Work of Aids -- Notes -- 11. Metropolis of the Midlands -- Myths of Birmingham -- Urban Living as Bad -- Rethinking the Urban -- Urban Living as Cosmopolitan Living -- Relocation of Economy -- Metropolis -- Notes -- 12. Singapore Soil: A Completely Different Organisation of Space -- Prelude -- Singapore Soil: 'Greening Up' -- The Points of Singapore (Transitlink Guide): Orchard -- Space and Place -- Points -- Points 2 -- The Empirial -- Growing Up -- Singapore -- The Points of Singapore ( Transitlink Guide: Clementi Interchange) -- ...And Its Discontents -- One, Two, Three -- Urbanism -- City/ State? -- Notes -- Contributors -- Maria Balshaw -- Gargi Bhattacharyya -- Peter Brooker -- Al Deakin -- Richard Ings -- Liam Kennedy -- Myrto Konstantarakos -- John Phillips -- Pascal Pinck -- Stephen Shapiro -- Douglas Tallack -- Index -- ACT UP, 159-60 -- aerial photography, 62-3 -- African American -- 13 -- 16 -- urban experience, 42-3 -- urban experience, 82-4 -- Aids -- 18 -- 158-60 -- anamorphism 32 -- Angotti, Thomas -- 166 -- 167 -- Anti-urbanism 166-7 -- Arendt, Hannah 33 -- Aristotle 12 -- Armory Show 26 -- Ashcan School painters -- 9 -- 25-38 -- Augé, Marc 141 -- Auster, Paul -- 13 -- 100 -- 104 -- The New York Trilogy, 104 -- The New York Trilogy, 115 -- avant garde cinema -- 85 -- 87 -- 90 -- Balazs, Etienne 191 -- Baldwin, James 86 -- banlieues 135-8 -- Baudelaire, Charles -- 30 -- 31 -- bell hooks -- 54 -- 109 -- Bellows, George -- 26 -- 27 -- Blue Morning 34-7 -- New York, 27-9 -- Pennsylvania Station Excavation, 33-4 -- Benjamin, Walter -- 114n -- 127n -- Bhabha, Homi 16 -- Bigelow, Kathryn -- 124 -- 125 -- 126 -- Birmingham -- 16 -- 18 -- 162 -- as metropolis, 171-4 -- multiethnic heritage of, 169-70 -- myths of, 162-5 -- Birth of a Nation [D.W. Griffith film] 88.

Blue in the Face [Wayne Wang and Paul Auster film] -- 13 -- 100 -- 104 -- 105 -- 106 -- community in, 108-11 -- body -- 166-7 -- and urban space, 73-5 -- and urban space, 78-80 -- and urban space, 125 -- disabled, 13 -- disabled, 13 -- disabled, 72-4 -- disabled, 72-4 -- Bourke-White, Margaret 48 -- Brooker, Peter 93 -- Brooklyn -- 14 -- 106 -- 108 -- 109 -- 111-12 -- Buell, Frederick 15 -- Calvino, Italo 39-40 -- Carter, Angela 110 -- Chambers, Iain -- 100 -- 113n -- Chew, Shirley 181 -- Chicago 7 -- Chicago School 83 -- city -- as centre, 17 -- as centre, 18 -- as metaphor, 5-6 -- image, 16 -- image, 16 -- image, 18 -- image, 18 -- Clark, T.J. 135 -- Clarke, David B. -- 56 -- 118 -- Clover, Carol 123 -- Coleman, A.D. 52 -- community -- 10 -- 12 -- 13 -- 14 -- 101-04 -- Conley, Tom 142 -- Connor, Steve -- 71 -- 80 -- Crary, Jonathan -- 25 -- 26 -- Cross, Malcolm -- 12 -- 125 -- cultural geography -- 2 -- 19 -- 99 -- Davis, Mike -- 117 -- 118 -- 122 -- 124-6 -- de Certeau, Michel 27 -- DeCarava, Roy 9 -- DeLillo, Don 55 -- Dickens, Charles -- 6 -- 12-13 -- 71-2 -- A Christmas Carol, 74-7 -- A Christmas Carol, 79 -- A Christmas Carol, 80 -- The Old Curiosity Shop, 77-80 -- Doane, Mary Ann -- 59 -- 66 -- Doezema, Marianne -- 29 -- 33 -- 37 -- Douglas, Ann 93 -- Dyer, Richard 88 -- Ellison, Ralph -- 51 -- 53 -- Falling Down [Joel Schumacher film] -- 119 -- 124 -- 127 -- white male paranoia in, 120-3 -- fear -- 12 -- 14 -- 80 -- 117 -- 166 -- Feuer, Jane 58 -- film and urban space -- 8 -- 14 -- 118-19 -- film de banlieue -- 16 -- 131 -- and American ghetto films, 131-5 -- centre and periphery in, 138-43 -- Fischer, Gustave-Nicolas 141 -- Fisher, Rudolph 46 -- Flaneur -- 30 -- 31 -- 142 -- 168 -- Foster, Jodie 131 -- Foucault, Michel -- 1 -- 2 -- 25 -- 73 -- 142 -- France 17 -- gentrification -- 15 -- 17-18 -- 148-52 -- 158-60.

Gerster, George 63 -- ghetto -- 40-1 -- 84 -- in film, 132-5 -- Gibson, Katherine 102 -- Gibson, William 194n -- Giddens, Anthony 108 -- global and local -- 6-7 -- 15 -- 17 -- 18 -- 153-4 -- global cities -- 15 -- 16 -- 17 -- global city theorists 18 -- globalisation -- 15 -- 99 -- grid [modernist] -- 27 -- 35-6 -- Grosz, Elizabeth 118 -- HABITAT 165-6 -- Hall, Stuart -- 52 -- 89 -- 104 -- Hall, Tim 163 -- Handlin, Oscar 31 -- Hargreaves, Alec 134 -- Harlem -- 9 -- 13 -- 40 -- 82 -- 84 -- 85 -- 95 -- white photography of, 41-2 -- Harlem Renaissance -- 41 -- 84 -- 85 -- 90 -- Harvey, David 1-2 -- Hollevoet, Christine -- 25 -- 29 -- homelessness 15 -- Hughes, Langston -- 9 -- 40 -- 42 -- 85 -- hyperspace 6 -- I Shot Andy Warhol [Mary Harron film] 159 -- interpretation -- 3-4 -- 11 -- 188-9 -- Jay, Martin -- 8 -- 25 -- 26 -- Johnson, James Weldon -- 41 -- 50 -- Jones, Karen 29 -- Julien, Isaac -- 82 -- 85 -- 86 -- 87 -- 90 -- Kasan, Goh -- 179 -- 193n -- Keith, Michael -- 12 -- 125 -- King, Rodney 124-5 -- Kofman, Eleonore 137 -- Krauss, Rosalind -- 32 -- 35-6 -- Kushner, Tony 158 -- La Bohème -- 18 -- 149 -- 155-7 -- La Haine [Mathieu Kassovitz film] -- La Haine [Mathieu Kassovitz film], 136 -- La Haine [Mathieu Kassovitz film], 137 -- La Haine [Mathieu Kassovitz film], 138-42 -- Lapsley, Rob 132 -- Larson, Jonathan 159 -- Lefebvre, Michel -- 2-3 -- 13 -- legibility -- 3-5 -- 10 -- 71-2 -- 77 -- 125 -- Locke, Alaine 84 -- Looking for Langston [Isaac Julien film] -- 13 -- 82 -- 84 -- community in, 95-6 -- race and homosexuality in, 87-90 -- visuality in, 85-6 -- visuality in, 87 -- voyeurism and looking relations in, 88-90 -- Los Angeles -- 6 -- 10 -- 14 -- 98 -- 99 -- 117 -- 118 -- airborne view of, 60-1 -- Los Angeles Times -- 65-6 -- 67 -- Lukacs, Georg 28 -- Luks, George -- 26 -- 34 -- Hester Street, 29-31 -- Lyons, David 98.

Mahoney, Elizabeth 142 -- Manhattan -- 7 -- 17 -- Marx, Karl -- 148 -- 152-4 -- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, 154 -- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, 154 -- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, 156-7 -- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, 156-7 -- Massey, Doreen 103 -- Mercer, Kobena 90 -- metropolis 18 -- modernism 32 -- modernity -- 5 -- 11 -- 32 -- 37 -- 73 -- 79 -- 104 -- Mondrian, Piet -- 27 -- 35-6 -- Morrison, Toni -- 13 -- 85 -- 86 -- Jazz, 13 -- Jazz, 82 -- Jazz, 84 -- narrative voice in, 93-5 -- visuality in, 85-6 -- visuality in, 85-6 -- visuality in, 91-2 -- visuality in, 91-2 -- Mumford, Lewis 117 -- Murger, Henry -- 155 -- 157 -- Murray, Albert -- 41 -- 51 -- national identity 15 -- New York City -- 7 -- 9 -- 17 -- 40 -- 99 -- 146 -- airborne view of, 61-2 -- in painting, 25-38 -- Nugent, Bruce -- 86 -- 90 -- Pan, Lynn 186 -- paranoid spatiality -- 6 -- 14 -- 117-19 -- 126-7 -- Paris -- 17 -- 135 -- 138 -- 139 -- 140 -- 142 -- Park, Robert E. -- 83 -- 84 -- photo-text 40 -- photography -- 8 -- 9-10 -- 40-52 -- 85-6 -- 91-2 -- place -- 5 -- 6-7 -- and identity, 101-4 -- policing 146-48 -- postcolonial 180 -- postmodern urbanism -- 6 -- 13-14 -- 98-104 -- postmodernism 18 -- postmodernity -- 5 -- 11 -- postnational space 15-19 -- power 3-11 -- Preziosi, Donald 5 -- psychic space 6 -- public space -- 12 -- 17 -- race -- and representation, 125 -- and space, 12 -- and space, 12 -- and space, 13 -- and space, 13 -- and space, 14 -- and space, 14 -- and space, 84 -- and space, 84 -- Reader, Keith -- 131 -- 140 -- representational rights 7 -- Riis, Jacob 42 -- Robins, Kevin -- 103 -- 104 -- 111 -- 126 -- Rogers, Paul A. 52 -- Sandercock, Leonie 169 -- Sassen, Sakia -- 17 -- 99 -- Schulman, Sarah 159 -- Schumacher, Joel 120 -- Sennett, Richard 12 -- Sharpe, William 4 -- Shields, Rob 3.

Shinn, Everett.