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]
©2002

Description:

300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.

Series:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture ; XX

Notes:
"The essays were developed from the May 1996 Studies in Landscape Architecture Symposium organized by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn and Robert B. Riley"--Page 2.
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.

Summary:

The prevalence and influence of "theming" increased so dramatically during the 1990s that theme parks have become a metaphor for postmodern urban life. In particular, critics apply the term "Disneyfication" to any landscape developed to communicate with several audiences, especially when that communication is an attempt to stimulate and direct consumption. While scholars have prepared numerous explorations of this phenomenon, few scholarly studies focus on the landscapes in theme parks. This volume's authors examine current and past, public and private, obviously and subtly themed landscapes in Asia, Europe, and North America in response to this worldwide development.

Resources:
Internet Archive

ISBN:

0884022854
9780884022855

Subject:

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

Form/genre:

proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Young, Terence (Terence G.), editor.
Riley, Robert B., editor.
Dumbarton Oaks, publisher.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (Series) ; 20.

Holdings:

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