单词 | manhattanism |
释义 | Manhattanismn. A culture or ideology associated with modern-day life in a large city (spec. New York); the architecture, etc., associated with such a culture. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > other types of civilizations or cultures economy1535 patriarchy1868 by-world1872 Western world1894 overworld1895 open society1911 pao-chia1931 closed society1935 plural society1939 technopolis1946 shame culture1947 19841951 Hollerith1957 metaculture1959 underground1959 permissive society1960 caring society1966 technocomplex1968 microsociety1970 overground1971 Manhattanism1978 1978 R. Koolhaas Delirious New York 6 An interpretation that intends to establish Manhattan as the product of an unformulated theory, Manhattanism. 1978 R. Koolhaas Delirious New York 7 Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendours and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. 1979 Time 8 Jan. 59/2 Apparently, to ‘Manhattanism’—that fantasy-laden, Promethean language of shaped towers that produced the great monuments of the '20s and '30s: Rockefeller Center, Empire State, the Chrysler Building. 1983 E. Hardwick Bartleby in Manhattan v. 223 Lodgings then, and later the ‘divided space’ of the apartment house, both expressing Manhattanism as a life lived in transition. 1991 N.Y. Times ii. 36/1 ‘Manhattanism’, a hedonistic fantasy style of hyperdensity. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1978 |
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