Street Noise

A Notebook on New York City History and Culture
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-10185-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Street Noise offers a series of historical and cultural reflections and observations about York City. It presents innovative insights into many day-to-day aspects of New York City that have been ignored or forgotten. Street Noise is a unique mixture of urban studies and cultural theory.

Through a blend of provocative and evocative musings about New York City, the book provides both the sophisticated reader and the casual “tourist” themes, issues and topics often overlooked or not adequately considered. It explores interesting destinations not typically on a tourist’s “to-do list,” and offers serious and rigorous analysis of important sites and characteristics that make New York New York. A wide range of topics is discussed in a series of short notes in this book, from the origins of Ray's Pizza to the social dynamics of cell phone users. This hybrid text is both a cultural critique and an ode to the city, offering readers a unique perspective on one of the world's most dynamic urban landscapes.

Street Noise will appeal to graduate and undergraduate students interested in cultural and social theory, urban studies, architecture, urban design and history. Yet it is a book that is readily accessible to both the tourist and the general reader interested in New York City. It would also be a perfect memento and gift.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scapp, Ron

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Note 1: At the Ear Inn Note 2: Black Cherokee: Art(ist) in and on the Street (and Highway?) Note 3: Canal Street: Dead Metaphors and the Topography of New York City Note 4: City Island: New York City's Nantucket? Note 5: Dead Places: Hallowed Ground and Real Estate Note 6: From Coenties Slip to Herman Melville Square and Back Again? Note 7: Gramercy Park Note 8: Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden: A Rise on East 61st Street, and a Dip Back into History Note 9: Up the (Newton) Creek Without a Paddle Note 10: Ray's Pizza: Origins, Authenticity and Repetition Note 11: Seneca Village Note 12: Socrates Sculpture Park Note 13: If at First You Don't Secede: Staten Island Reconsidered Note 14: The ABCs of the NYC Subway Note 15: The Bronx, Definitely Note 16: The GWB: Heavy Metal Gothic Note 17: The High Line: A Rail Trail with a Real Way Tale Note 18: The "New York" Giants and Jets? Note 19: Traffic Jams: Improvising on "Red Light, Green Light, 1, 2, 3" Note 20: Willets Point 21: End Note: City Limits…

Über Autor(innen)

Ron Scapp is an author and educator noted for his interdisciplinary work in philosophy, ethnic studies, education and cultural theory. He is the founding director of the graduate program in urban and multicultural education at the University of Mount Saint Vincent, the Bronx, NY, where he is also professor emeritus of humanities and teacher education.