{"id":599,"date":"2020-11-03T18:50:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T18:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/?p=599"},"modified":"2022-01-18T12:11:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T12:11:01","slug":"times-square-red-times-square-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/bookshelf\/times-square-red-times-square-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Square Red, Times Square Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samuel R. Delany\u00a0<\/em>(New York and London: New York University Press, 1999)<\/h2>\n

Recommended by Rona Cran<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TimesTimes Square Red, Times Square Blue<\/em> provocatively explores the redevelopment of New York City\u2019s 42nd<\/sup> Street, or the Deuce, since the start of the 1960s \u2013 \u2018a violent reconfiguration\u2019 of the landscape of the city. The book consists of two extended essays, each moving \u2018along different trajectories and at different intensities \u2026 two attempts by a single navigator to describe what the temporal coastline and the lay of the land looked like and felt like and the thoughts he had while observing them\u2019. Delany playfully but instructively tracks the shift of one of the world\u2019s most famous urban places \u2013 Times Square \u2013 from a locale hinging on pornography and public sex to one structured around tourism, \u2018family values and safety\u2019. In evoking and mourning the disappearance of the old Times Square, Delany illuminates the complex social relationships that developed there and were subsequently lost, exploring the pleasure and importance of communication across classes and in public spaces, and the crucial differences between institutionally-engineered networking (which tends to take place indoors) and contact<\/em>, which is associated with public space and is more broadly social and random.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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