Examining constructions, representations, imaginations and theorizations of 'cityscapes' in contemporary culture, this new interdisciplinary volume includes commissioned essays from the fields of architecture, visual art and urban geography.

Christoph Lindner is Assistant Professor of Literature and Film at Northern Illinois University

Foreword: Cityscapes as Cityspaces 1. Revisioning Urban Space and Cityscapes Part 1: Image 2. Cityscape with Ferris Wheel: Chicago, 1893 3. Seeing Only Corpses: Vision And/Of Urban Disaster in Apocalyptic Cinema 4. New York. 9.11 5. The Idea of Hong Kong: Structures of Attention in the City of Life Part 2: Text 6. Paris Underground: Juan Goytisolo and the 'Situationist' City 7. Negotiations of London as Imperial Urban Space in the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel 8. Reading Urban Spaces in African Texts 9. Reading the Illegible Cityscapes of Postmodern Fiction 10. The Death and Return of the New York Skyscraper: Cather, Libeskind, and Verticality Part 3: Form 11. The Museum, the Street, and the Virtual Landscape of Berlin 12. The Reversible City: Exhibition(ism), Chorality and Tenderness in Manhattan and Venice 13. Australia's Gold Coast: A City Producing Itself 14. Cognitive Mapping the Dispersed City