Cityscapes in the Americas and beyond

From the perspective of literary and cultural studies, this volume, the fourth in the series, explores how urban complexity is represented in fiction, film, and other media. Almost half of the essays in this volume focus on New York City as arguably the epitome of the urban. Further essays offer discussions of other North American cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, or Mexico City, as well as comparative views beyond North America. In their exploration of various facets of urban complexity, the essays cover a broad range of topics---mobility, intercultural encounters and cosmopolitanism, crime, violence and trauma, urban utopia and dystopia, socio-cultural heterogeneity, or conflicts over the use of urban space.