CEL OrO IO Ski ie JAMES SANDERS2 (previous page) Constructing a syline riniature fr The Hudsucker Prony (3994). wR Copyright @ 2001 by James Sanders Allrights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, adivision of Random House, ne, New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York www a2knopf.com Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Ine. Grateful acknowledgment is made tothe following for permission to reprint previously published material Fandom House, Ins: Excerpt from The Death and Life of Crest American Citiesby Jane Jacobs, ‘copyright © 1961 by Jane Jacobs. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Ine Warmer Bros. Publications U.S. Ine. Excerpt from "Going Hollywood” by Arthus Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, copyright @ 1983 (copyright renewed) by Metro-Coldwyn-Mayer Inc Allrights assigned to EMI Robbins Catalog Inc.: excerpt from "New York, New York" by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green, copyright © 194 (copyright renewed) by Warner Bros. Inc.All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Warner Bros. Publications U.S. Ine., Miami, FL330ug 18M: 0-B94-5706-6 LGCN: 2001091010 ‘Manufactured in the United States of Amerie Published November 3o, 2001 Second Printing, june 2s02AUTHOR'S NOTE xi INTRODUCTION 3 PART ONE MYTHIC CITIES 13 SIDEWALK MOMENTS | FILMING THE city: 1896-1928 DREAMING THE CITY | New Yorkers in HoLLYwooD Taree BUILDING THE DREAM | THE stubio pRODUCTION system PART TWO ON THETOWN 85 Four EMERALD CITIES | SkYUNES OF FANTASY 93 23 43 61