New York''s New Edge Contemporary Art, High Line, Urban Megaprojects on Far West Side

Tells the story of New York's west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. This book offers an analysis of the transforming district in New York's New Edge, and the result is a new understanding of how we perceive and interpret culture and the city in New York's gallery district.

About the author

David Halle is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and director of UCLA in New York: Cities and Cultures, Summer Travel Program. He is also an adjunct professor at the City University of New York's Graduate Center and the author of America's Working Man and Inside Culture, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Elisabeth Tiso is an art historian who has taught at Parsons, Fordham University, and UCLA in New York. She has published reviews and articles on contemporary art and architecture in Art in American, ArtNews Magazine, Parole Gelees and other academic publications.

Summary

Tells the story of New York's west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. This book offers an analysis of the transforming district in New York's New Edge, and the result is a new understanding of how we perceive and interpret culture and the city in New York's gallery district.

Product details

• Authors: David Halle, David Tiso Halle, Elisabeth Tiso, Tiso Elisabeth, Halle David
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 09.12.2014
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning
• EAN: 9780226032405
• ISBN: 978-0-226-03240-5
• Pages: 432
• Subjects: New York, contemporary Art, City, Manhattan, Subway, History, Architecture, Politics, Sociology, Planning, Urban, High Line, Nonfiction, tourism, stadium, Infrastructure, Urban & municipal planning, Government, renewal, Affordable Housing, Historical Preservation, Urban and municipal planning and policy, galleries, Collectors, Whitney Museum, zoning, megaprojects, Revitalization, New York (state), West Side, gansevoort market, chelsea gallery district, moynihan station, javits convention center, rezoning, hudson yards development, google headquarters, fashion central