Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Preface xi
6. CHAPTER ONE. The Concept of After-Image and the Scopic Apprehension of the City 1
7. CHAPTER TWO. City Future in City Past: Balzac's Cartographic Imagination 23
8. CHAPTER THREE. London: Tomorrow's Yesterday, Future Images of the Past 49
9. CHAPTER FOUR. Berlin 2000: "The Image of an Empty Place" 61
10. CHAPTER FIVE. From Rose of Fire to City of Ivory 75
11. CHAPTER SIX. Bees at a Loss: Images of Madrid (before and) after La colmena 123
12. CHAPTER SEVEN. The World in Our Head: Images and After-Images of the City in the Works of Albert Cohen 139
13. CHAPTER EIGHT. Tijuana: Shadowtext for the Future 159
14. CHAPTER NINE. After-Images of the "New" New York and the Alfred Stieglitz Circle 183
15. CHAPTER TEN. The City Vanishes 209
16. Notes 225
17. Works Cited 243
18. Contributors 259
19. Index 263