Klaus BENESCH: Concepts of Space in American Culture: An Introduction Theory Winfried FLUCK: Imaginary Space; Or, Space as Aesthetic Object Lothar HÖNNIGHAUSEN: Where Are We? Some Methodological Reflections on Space, Place, and Postmodern Reality Jochen ACHILLES: The Subject-Object Paradigm: Conflict and Convergence in Theories of Landscape, Consciousness, and Technoscape since Emerson and Thoreau Hanjo BERRESSEM: Multiplicity: Foldings in Architectural and Literary Landscapes Sabine SIELKE: Between, Beyond, Elsewhere: Mapping the Zones and Borderlands of Critical Discourse Landscape/Nature David E. Nye: Foundational Space, Technological Narrative Robin Morris COLLIN and Robert W. COLLIN: Waste and Race: An Introduction to Sustainability and Equity Hellmut FRÖHLICH: The Cultural Spaces of Southern California: From Colonial Conquest to Postborder Region Kirk A. HOPPE: Simulated Safaris: Reading African Landscapes in the U.S. Gerd HURM: Water and the land's disease: Poetics and Politics of Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead Technoscape/Architecture/Urban Utopia Klaus BENESCH: A Brief Introduction to Architectural Body by Madeline Gins and Arakawa Madeline GINS and ARAKAWA: The Architectural Body–Landing Sites Florian Rötzer: Urban Exodus? The Future of the City Astrid BÖGER: Envisioning Progress at Chicago's White City Tracey Jean BOISSEAU: Where Every Woman May Be a Queen: Gender, Politics, and Visual Space at the Chicago World's Fair, 1893 Literature Joseph C. SCHÖPP: Charles Sealsfield's and Ferdinand Kürnberger's Spatial Constructions of America Heike SCHÄFER: Man Is Not Himself Only: Senses of Place in American Nature Writing Ulfried REICHARDT: Interior and Exterior Spaces: Versions of the Self in the American Novel around 1900 Florian DOMBOIS: Moving Earth: On Earthquakes and American Culture in Arthur C. Clarke's SF-Novel Richter 10 Ruth MAYER: 'Just Driving': Contemporary Road Novels and the Triviality of the Outlaw Existence Brigitte GEORGI-FINDLAY: Sites of Community, Sites of Contest: The Formation of Urban Space in the American West Elisabeth SCHÄFER-WÜNSCHE: Borders and Catastrophes: T.C. Boyle's Californian Ecology Performance/Film/Visual Arts Kerstin SCHMIDT: Theatrical Space and Mediatized Culture: John Jesurun's Pieces in Spaces Martina LEEKER: Dancing the Digital: American and European Visions of Digital Bodies in Digital Spaces Julia KURSELL and Armin SCHÄFER: Slow Spaces. Remarks on the Music of John Cage Geneviève FABRE: African-American Contestations of Public and Ceremonial Space during the Civil War: Freedom Jubilees, 1861-1865 Michel FABRE: The Ring and the Stage: African Americans in Parisian Public and Imaginary Space before World War I Berndt OSTENDORF: Belizaire the Cajun and the Post-CODOFIL Renaissance of Cajun Cultural Capital and Space Paul NEUBAUER: Brooklyn Bridge: Sign and Symbol in the Works of Hart Crane and Joseph Stella Karsten FITZ: Contested Space: Washington Crossing the Delaware as a Site of American Cultural Memory Contributors Illustrations