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:
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.

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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

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Orvell, Miles.
Meikle, Jeffrey L., 1949-
Architecture, technology, culture ; 3.

Holdings:

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