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Times Square Spectacular
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Author : Darcy Tell
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2007-11-06
Times Square Spectacular written by Darcy Tell and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-06 with Design categories.
A visual history of Times Square from the late 19th century to today, rich with rarely seen photographs of the neighborhood's shimmering, pre-World War II electric advertising signs. In Times Square Spectacular, Darcy Tell traces the 100-year story of Times Square using rare photographs and hand-colored lantern slides, maps, restaurant menus, theater programs, magazine covers, postcards, sheet music, and archival documents. Presenting even the most familiar elements of Times Square lore with fresh, eye-catching detail, she pays special tribute to ad man extraordinaire Douglas Leigh's arrival in the early 1930s, which brought a stunning new era of electric brightness and innovation. Leigh dominated the Broadway streetscape for nearly 50 years, stopping traffic with special-effects billboards such as the legendary Camel cigarettes "smoke rings" sign. Covering both Times Square's infamous decline as well as its hard-wrought, present-day revival, Times Square Spectacular is the first pictorial history of the legendary American landmark.
Times Square Style
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Author : Vicki Gold Levi
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 2004-08-12
Times Square Style written by Vicki Gold Levi and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-12 with Architecture categories.
Before there was Vegas, and long before there was "reality television," there was Times Square. For a century, it has stood as the blazing Crossroads of the World; the sometimes magical, sometimes tawdry, but always spectacular epicenter of American commercial culture. Times Square Style is a visual compendium of the energy and dazzle and glamour that made the Great White Way the most famous -- and notorious -- place in America's most famous -- and notorious -- city. From Ziegfeld's Follies and George White's Scandals to titanic signs with screaming type -- Drink Pepsi! Smoke Camels! Good to the Last Drop! -- to burlesques with dancing girls in short, short skirts, this book brings to colorful life a trove of arcane, lost, and otherwise forgotten promotions, signs, flyers, programs, posters, records, napkins, advertisements, billboards, and other works of ephemera large and small. Times Square Style is published on the centennial anniversary of this defining American place, with more than 200 color images and 25 vintage black-and-white prints.
One Times Square
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language : en
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Release Date : 2011
One Times Square written by and has been published by David R. Godine Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Explores the story of this intersection, from when Broadway was a mere dirt path known as Bloomingdale Road, through the district's decades of postwar decay, to its renewal as a tourist-friendly mecca.
Times Square Roulette
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Author : Lynne B. Sagalyn
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2003-08-29
Times Square Roulette written by Lynne B. Sagalyn and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-29 with Architecture categories.
The compelling story of the politics, policies, and personalities that made Times Square's revitalization possible. The spectacularly successful transformation of Times Square has become a model for other cities. From its beginning as Longacre Square, Times Square's commercialism, signage, cultural diversity, and social tolerance have been deeply embedded in New York City's psyche. Its symbolic role guaranteed that any plan for its renewal would push the hot buttons of public controversy: free speech, property-taking through eminent domain, development density, tax subsidy, and historic preservation. In Times Square Roulette, Lynne Sagalyn debunks the myth of an overnight urban miracle performed by Disney and Mayor Giuliani, to tell the far more complex and commanding tale of a twenty-year process of public controversy, nonstop litigation, and interminable delay. She tells how the troubled execution of the original redevelopment plan provided a rare opportunity to rescript it. And timing was all: the mid-1990s saw rising international corporate interest in the city was a mecca for mass-market entertainment and synergistic merchandising. Sagalyn details the complex relationship between planning and politics and the role of market forces in shaping Times Square's redevelopment opportunities. She shows how policy was wedded to deal making and how persistent individuals and groups forged both.
Times Square Remade
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Author : Lynne B. Sagalyn
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-11-21
Times Square Remade written by Lynne B. Sagalyn and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-21 with Political Science categories.
The illuminating evolution of the iconic space of Times Square. What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is it that, despite its many changes of character, the place has maintained a unique hold on our collective imagination? In this book, which comes twenty years after her widely acclaimed Times Square Roulette, Lynne Sagalyn masterfully tells the story of profound urban change over decades in the symbolic space that is New York City’s Times Square. Drawing on the history, sociology, and political economy of the place, Times Square Remade examines how the public-private transformation of 42nd Street at Times Square impacted the entertainment district and adjacent neighborhoods, particularly Hell’s Kitchen. Sagalyn chronicles the earliest halcyon days of 42nd Street and Times Square as the nexus of speculation and competitive theater building as well as its darkest days as vice central, and on to the years of aggressive government intervention to cleanse West 42nd Street of pornography and crime. Thematically, the author analyzes the three main forces that have shaped and reshaped Times Square—theater, real estate, and pornography—and explains the politics and economics of what got built and what has been restored or preserved. Accompanied by nearly 160 images, more than half in color, Times Square Remade is a deftly woven narrative of urban transformation that will appeal as much to the general reader and New York City enthusiast as to urbanists, city planners, architects, urban designers, and policymakers.
Life
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946-04-01
Life written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946-04-01 with categories.
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Electrographic Architecture
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Author : Carolyn L. Kane
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-08-01
Electrographic Architecture written by Carolyn L. Kane and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-01 with Social Science categories.
Bridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture forges a critical narrative of the ways in which illuminated light and color have played key roles in the formation of America's white imaginary. Carolyn L. Kane charts the rise of the country's urban advertisements, light empires, and neoclassical buildings in the early twentieth century; the midcentury construction of polychromatic electrographic spectacles; and their eclipse by informatically intense, invisible algorithms at the dawn of the new millennium. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis, Electrographic Architecture shows how the development of America's electrographic surround runs parallel to a new paradigm of power, property, and possession.
Flickering Light
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Author : Christoph Ribbat
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2013-07-15
Flickering Light written by Christoph Ribbat and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-15 with History categories.
Without neon, Las Vegas might still be a sleepy desert town in Nevada and Times Square merely another busy intersection in New York City. Transformed by the installation of these brightly colored signs, these destinations are now world-famous, representing the vibrant heart of popular culture. But for some, neon lighting represents the worst of commercialism. Energized by the conflicting love and hatred people have for neon, Flickering Light explores its technological and intellectual history, from the discovery of the noble gas in late nineteenth-century London to its fading popularity today. Christoph Ribbat follows writers, artists, and musicians—from cultural critic Theodor Adorno, British rock band the Verve, and artist Tracey Emin to Vladimir Nabokov, Langston Hughes, and American country singers—through the neon cities in Europe, America, and Asia, demonstrating how they turned these blinking lights and letters into metaphors of the modern era. He examines how gifted craftsmen carefully sculpted neon advertisements, introducing elegance to modern metropolises during neon’s heyday between the wars followed by its subsequent popularity in Las Vegas during the 1950s and '60s. Ribbat ends with a melancholy discussion of neon’s decline, describing how these glowing signs and installations came to be seen as dated and characteristic of run-down neighborhoods. From elaborate neon lighting displays to neglected diner signs with unlit letters, Flickering Light tells the engrossing story of how a glowing tube of gas took over the world—and faded almost as quickly as it arrived.
Postcards From Times Square
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Author : George J. Lankevich
language : en
Publisher: Square One Publishers, Inc.
Release Date : 2001
Postcards From Times Square written by George J. Lankevich and has been published by Square One Publishers, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Through images that span half a century, "Postcards from Times Square" presents pictures of an era that has been the home of movie palaces and playhouses, of elite restaurants and fast food chains, and of the best-known New Year's celebration in the world. 100 postcards.
New York Magazine
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997-05-19
New York Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-19 with categories.
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.