Main entry:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (20th)

Title & Author:

Theme park landscapes : antecedents and variations / edited by Terence Young and Robert Riley.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, ©2002.

Description:

300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XX"--Page [i].
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Grounding the myth : theme park landscapes in an era of commerce and nationalism / Terence Young -- The past as a theme park / David Lowenthal -- Toward distinguishing among theme park publics : William Chambers's landscape theory vs. his Kew practice / Richard Quaintance -- Rhetoric, authenticity, and reception : the eighteenth-century landscape garden, the modern theme park, and their audiences / Edward Harwood -- Pleasure gardens, theme parks, and the picturesque / Heath Schenker -- The fiddler's indecorous nostalgia / Michel Conan -- The museum and the joy ride : Williamsburg landscapes and the specter of theme parks / Edward A. Chappell -- Virtue and irony in a U.S. national park / Terence Young -- The old/new theme park : the American agricultural fair / Carla I. Corbin -- Theme park, themed living : the case of Huis Ten Bosch [Japan] / Marc Treib -- Landscapes of theme park rides : media, modes, messages / Brenda J. Brown -- Chinese theme parks and national identity / Nick Stanley.

ISBN:

0884022854
9780884022855

Subject:

Parks Congresses.
Gardens Congresses.
Landscape architecture Congresses.
Parcs Congrès.
Jardins Congrès.
Architecture du paysage Congrès.
Gardens.
Landscape architecture.
Parks.
Themaparken.
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Parques.
Arquitetura paisagística (congressos)
Jardins.

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

Young, Terence (Terence G.), editor.
Riley, Robert B., editor.
Dumbarton Oaks.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224752
Call No.: SB481.A2 D8 2002
Status: Available