New York City : capital of the twentieth century. The world of tomorrow ; A global capital ; A city transformed ; The urban crisis / Leonard Wallock
Living on the edge : New York in literature. Cities within the city ; Between two cities ; Urban eros : sex and violence ; Over the edge and underground ; Streets and sidewalks ; Conclusion : staying alive / William Sharpe
Architecture in New York City. New York in 1940 ; The impact of the war ; Early postwar housing ; Transportation facilities and office buildings ; Technological developments ; The impact of concrete construction ; Urban renewal and its consequences / Carol Herselle Krinsky
The city and the visual arts. World War II and abstract expressionism ; Sense of tragedy ; American artists ; Exhibitions and galleries ; The art world ; New York school ; Abstract expressionism and sculptors ; Era of conformity and affluence ; Painters and the other arts ; The city as theme ; The 1950s ; Pop art and minimal art / Dore Ashton
Toward an American dance : dance in the city. Modern dance : from politics to myth ; Ballet : from Americana to abstraction ; The new avant-garde / Lynn Garafola
The city and the theater. Theater in the early years ; Theater versus drama ; History of American drama ; Musicals ; World War II and after ; Serious drama ; Other serious playwrights ; Birth and rise of Off-Broadway ; Theaters / Richard Gilman.
New York's music. New York's coming of age, 1890-1940 ; Business and technology ; Performing institutions ; Classical composition ; Jazz ; Broadway and Tin Pan Alley ; Folk, rock, and the rise of the underclass ; Toward the present / John Rockwell
The social and intellectual life of the city. The intellectual iceberg ; Beneath the surface (complacency) ; The limits of "chicness" / Alexander Bloom.
