Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space

Sorkin, Michael

ISBN 10: 0374523142 / ISBN 13: 9780374523145

Verlag: Hill & Wang, 1992

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Inhaltsangabe:

America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditional public space--is emerging both at the heart and at the edge of town in megamalls, corporate enclaves, gentrified zones, and psuedo-historic marketplaces. If anything can be described as a paradigm for these places, it's the theme park, an apparently benign environment in which all is structured to achieve maximum control and in which the idea of authentic interaction among citizens has been thoroughly purged. In this bold collection, eight of our leading urbanists and architectural critics explore the emblematic sites of this new cityscape--from Silicon Valley to Epcot Center, South Street Seaport to downtown Los Angeles--and reveal their disturbing implications for American public life.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Edited by Michael Sorkin

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Variations on a Theme Park: The New American...
Verlag: Hill & Wang
Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
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