"Clutter compellingly argues that the John Lindsay Administration in New York City helped to construct an apparatus in which the forces of media and urban planning fed off each other to foster a new, more economically vibrant metropolis. . . . The book provide[s] an excellent case study of the role of media within urban design. . . . Designers should not write off the effects of their particular dominant media form on the planning process; in a time in which our virtual lives can seem comparably important to our physical ones, we may start swiping left on our cities if we ignore the effects of our contemporary imaginary apparatus."

Archinect

“Scholars and historians have made short work of architecture’s media functions, claiming them as important, if not more so, as actual physical buildings. We scour through archives, dig up sketches, engravings, magazines, any kind of published format that proves architecture as being what the US copyright statutes call a ‘tangible medium of expression.’ Clutter’s Imaginary Apparatus is a welcome addition to this body of literature, making a case for the vitality of architecture’s image-ability.”

Avery Review

 “Imaginary Apparatus is a tightly argued, concise study but its implications are far-reaching, and these include its resonances for the field of film and media studies as it seeks to be as openly interdisciplinary as possible. . . . Clutter’s volume holds equal interest for film and media scholars, insofar as he demonstrates how much other disciplines look to moving-image study for inspiration and thereby how those disciplines imagine what cinema scholars, at their most capacious reaches, are doing.”
 

Film Quarterly