Books in the Cultural Spaces series

Exploring the crossroads of commerce and culture, this book provides an account of the relationships forged between technology and finance in 1990s New York, and the urban culture they generated.

Shows how the placeless markets that billboards created presage the pop-ups in the ultimate placeless space, the Internet. Richly illustrated with more than 60 illustrations--including an 8-page color insert--of billboards and ads from across the century, this book traces the evolution of billboards from urban centers of the 1920s to the freeways that stretch across America today

Traces the rise of New York City as a brand and the resultant transformation of urban politics and public life. This title shows that the branding of New York was not simply a marketing tool; rather it was a political strategy.

Explores the significance of globalization processes on urban change, architectural practice and the built environment. This book covers the "star system" of international architects who combine celebrity and hypermobility, the top firms, and whose offices undergo a major global expansion.

Presents a cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. This work explains that the emergence of a culture of mass consumption dominated by visual experience was a much slower process, not truly ascendant until after the First World War.

Nineteen of New York's best urbanists consider the attacks of September 11. Their essays provide a panoramic social portrait of New York and point to a manifesto for a democratically planned city, where all the different communities count.