Title & Author:

Playing place : board games, popular culture, space / edited by Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
©2023

Description:

xxxvii, 230 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-214) and index.
Introduction / Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky -- Player TV : board games in TV land / Lynn Spigel -- Scrabble and the image of the (out-of-work) architect / Athanasiou Geolas -- The domestic bliss of Life / D. Medina Lasansky -- Barbie queen of the prom / Alice T. Friedman -- Skyscraper : replaying epic battles in city planning / Jennifer Minner -- From Monopoly to Taudis-Poly / Samia Henni -- Hostile architecture : Burgle Bros., interdiction, and spatial politics / Rowan Tulloch -- Playing out tough decisions in urban planning history : Cross Bronx Expressway / Chad Randl -- Ground rules : strategic abstraction in Terrace / Justin Fowler -- Uranium rush : the radioactive gimmick / Emily Blair -- Mountainous ambitions : Himalayan board games and the British Empire / Ruth Lo -- The winding road to Catan / Mark Morris -- Blokus : from ornament to territory / David Salomon -- Historiography in space : approaches in commercial wargame board design / Maurice Suckling -- Building for the ages : Egyptian-themed board games / Bob Brier -- Pillars of the Earth : building a fantasy / Maile Hutterer -- Adventures in Disney's lands : theme park-themed games / Trudi Sandmeier -- Masterpiece : putting the museum on auction / Jeremy Braddock -- Playing and visiting the 1939 New York world's fair / Amy F. Ogata -- Hanging out at the food court with Electronic Mall Madness / Chad Randl -- Boxing up the escape room experience / Marco Arnaudo -- Trump and racialized capitalism / Whitten Overby -- The national mind as a prison : Fortress America / Jonathan Bullinger and Aaron Trammell -- Imperial board games for future colonists / Diana Garvin -- Risk analysis : mapping conquest on the game board / Andrew Shanken -- Empire preference : interwar British trade games / Holly Nielsen -- Encountering Central and South American cultures / D. Medina Lasansky -- Pandemic : when the abstract becomes concrete / José P. Zagel -- Magical thinking and cultural amnesia on the Western frontier / Abigail A. Van Slyck -- Food sovereignty as game design in the gift of food / Elizabeth LaPensée -- The leisure divide : board games and race / Dianne Harris -- Clued into elite sleuthing / D. Medina Lasansky -- Safe journi : negotiating roads and culture in Nigeria / Kenechukwu Ogbuagu -- Adolf and the king of Siam / Richard A. Ruth -- Revisiting "the city as game board" / Dale Leorke and Troy Innocent -- Workshopping board games for space, place, and culture / Erik Champion and Juan Hiriart -- Tables and floors : the playscapes of board games / Chad Randl -- Gaming negotiations : creating community and democratic space / Quilian Riano.

Summary:

"A smart coffee table book that explores multiple facets of board games, including their design and culture, and conceptions of space and place"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780262047838 hardcover
0262047837 hardcover
electronic book
9780262373432
9780262373449

Subject:

Board games History.
Board games Pictorial works.
Board games Design.
Board games

Form/genre:

History
Pictorial works
Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Randl, Chad, editor.
Lasansky, D. Medina, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318534
Call No.: 318534
Copy: 1
Status: Available