Title & Author:

Public space and the ideology of place in American culture / edited by Miles Orvell & Jeffrey L. Meikle.

Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.

Description:

460 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Architecture, technology, culture ; 3

Notes:
Eleven of these essays were presented in draft form at the conference "Public space and the ideology of place in American culture", sponsored by the Bavarian American Academy in Munich on Nov. 10-11, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Miles Orvell & Jeffrey L. Meikle -- pt. 1, Public space as symbol. Planning a national pantheon : monuments in Washington, D.C., and the creation of symbolic space / Anna Minta ; How the devil it got there : the politics of form and function in the Smithsonian castle / John F. Sears ; The Museum of Appalachia and the invention of an idyllic past / Torbens Huus Larsen ; Constructing main street : utopia and the imagined past / Miles Orvell ; Pasteboard views : idealizing public space in American postcards, 1931-1953 / Jeffrey L. Meikle -- pt. 2, Contesting public space. Terra incognita in the heart of the city? Montreal and Mount Royal around 1900 / Nadine Klopfer ; Grid, regulation, desire line : contests over civic space in Chicago / Peter B. Hales ; The precarious nature of semi-public space : community garden appeal, complacency, and implications for sustaining user-initiated places / Laura Lawson ; Buy, sell, roam : the airport calculus of retail / Kay F. Edge ; Consuming third place : Starbucks and the illusion of public space / Bryant Simon ; The public space of urban communities / Rickie Sanders -- pt. 3, The mutability of public space. Walking the high line / Eric J. Sandeen ; The search for a democratic architecture : a new sense of space and the reconfiguration of American architecture / Kerstin Schmidt ; Designed space vs. social space : intention and appropriation in an American urban park / Timothy Davis ; Public space transformed : New York's blackouts / David E. Nye ; Air and space / Sarah Luria ; Imagining the interstate : Henry Miller, post-tourism, and the disappearance of American place / Andrew S. Gross ; Writing grounds : ecocriticism, dumping sites, and the place of literature in a posthuman age / Klaus Benesch.
Contribution by Nadine Klopfer entitled "'Terra Incognita' in the heart of the city? Montreal and Mount Royal around 1900" includes maps of Montreal and images of Parc du Mont-Royal.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9789042025745
9042025743

Subject:

Public spaces United States.
Public architecture United States.
Espaces publics États-Unis.
Architecture publique États-Unis.
Public architecture.
Public spaces.
Öffentlicher Raum
Architekt.
United States.
USA
Parc du Mont-Royal (Montréal, Québec)

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Essays.

Added entries:

Orvell, Miles.
Meikle, Jeffrey L., 1949-
Klopfer, Nadine. 'Terra Incognita' in the heart of the city? Montreal and Mount Royal around 1900.
Architecture, technology, culture ; 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266990
Call No.: BIB 199037
Status: Available