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Media Capital: Architecture and Communications in New York City
Aurora Wallace
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Description for Media Capital: Architecture and Communications in New York City
Paperback. The buildings and spaces of New York City's mass media landscape Series: History of Communication. Num Pages: 192 pages, 38 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AMG; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
In a declaration of the ascendance of the American media industry, nineteenth-century press barons in New York City helped to invent the skyscraper, a quintessentially American icon of progress and aspiration. Early newspaper buildings in the country's media capital were designed to communicate both commercial and civic ideals, provide public space and prescribe discourse, and speak to class and mass in equal measure. This book illustrates how the media have continued to use the city as a space in which to inscribe and assert their power. With a unique focus on corporate headquarters as embodiments of the values of the press ... Read more
In a declaration of the ascendance of the American media industry, nineteenth-century press barons in New York City helped to invent the skyscraper, a quintessentially American icon of progress and aspiration. Early newspaper buildings in the country's media capital were designed to communicate both commercial and civic ideals, provide public space and prescribe discourse, and speak to class and mass in equal measure. This book illustrates how the media have continued to use the city as a space in which to inscribe and assert their power. With a unique focus on corporate headquarters as embodiments of the values of the press ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
History of Communication
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252078828
SKU
V9780252078828
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About Aurora Wallace
Aurora Wallace is a professor in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University and the author of Newspapers and the Making of Modern America.
Reviews for Media Capital: Architecture and Communications in New York City
"Will appeal both to scholars of the history of journalism and to students of built environments. It is wonderfully illustrated and draws on a range of historical documents."
Library Journal "Aurora Wallace tells a very compelling story about the 'media architecture' that materialized in New York around the newspaper industry from the early nineteenth century to now. Lively and ... Read more
Library Journal "Aurora Wallace tells a very compelling story about the 'media architecture' that materialized in New York around the newspaper industry from the early nineteenth century to now. Lively and ... Read more