Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces

Chapter 2 Walking with Poe: "The Man of the Crowd" from text to street   

The legacies of the flâneur                                                                                                         

Vanishing point: from Poe to Buckingham                                                                              

New forms of following: Poe, the metropolis and virtual communities                                  

Chapter 3 Transitions: Happenings and beyond                                

Into the streets: genealogies of urban mapping                                                                        

Oldenburg's The Street and Kaprow's Words: the city inside                                                 

Dispersed spatiality: Calling                                                                                                       

Fluxus: drawing lines and maps                                                                                                

Inside/outside: boundaries of the page                                                                                      

Urban nuisances: Following Piece and beyond                                                                        

American gifts: home and architecture                                                                                     

Chapter 5 Eternal Cities: Rome/Passaic. On Robert Smithson's

An "exploratory path": from Passaic to Rome                                                                        

Cultural and geographic frames                                                                                                

Rome: "the rotting remains of a vanished age"                                                                       

Chapter 6 Gordon Matta-Clark's urban slivers and "word works"        

In the ruins of New York                                                                                                           

Cartographic gaps                                                                                                                      

"Word works"                                                                                                                             

Chapter 7 Cartographies and the Texture of Cities: Rebecca Solnit's Infinite City. A San Francisco Atlas                                                                       

The death and renewal of maps                                                                                                

Point of view and renewal                                                                                                          

Identity and performative cartography                                                                                    

The atlas as method                                                                                                                    

Chapter 8 Conclusion: "write a book to get lost"