Title & Author:

Variations on a theme park : the new American city and the end of public space / Michael Sorkin, editor.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Hill and Wang, 1992.

Description:

xv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249).
Variations on a theme park / Michael Sorkin -- The world in a shopping mall / Margaret Crawford -- Silicon Valley Mystery House / Langdon Winner -- New city, new frontier : the Lower East Side as wild, wild West / Neil Smith -- Inside exopolis : scenes from Orange County / Edward W. Soja -- Underground and overhead : building the analogous city / Trevor Boddy -- Fortress Los Angeles : the militarization of urban space / Mike Davis -- Cities for sale : merchandising history at South Street Seaport / M. Christine Boyer -- See you in Disneyland / Michael Sorkin.

Summary:

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 pseudo-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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0809096072
9780809096077
0374523142 (pbk.)
9780374523145 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns United States.
City planning United States.
City and town life United States.
Public spaces United States.
Urbanismo Estados Unidos.
Vida urbana Estados Unidos.
Espacios públicos Estados Unidos.
Urbanización Estados Unidos.
Villes États-Unis.
Urbanisme États-Unis.
Vie urbaine États-Unis.
Espaces publics États-Unis.
Cities and towns.
City and town life.
City planning.
Public spaces.
Stadtplanung
Öffentlicher Raum
Stadsplanning.
Stadscultuur.
Openbaar leven.
Planejamento territorial urbano Estados unidos.
Espaço urbano.
United States.
USA

Added entries:

Sorkin, Michael, 1948-2020.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 74972
Call No.: ID:92-B237
Status: Available