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In New York for Sale, Tom Angotti tells some of the stories of community planning in New York City: how activists moved beyond simple protests and began to formulate community plans to protect neighborhoods against urban renewal, real estate mega-projects, gentrification, and environmental hazards. Angotti, both observer of and longtime participant in New York community(...)
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In New York for Sale, Tom Angotti tells some of the stories of community planning in New York City: how activists moved beyond simple protests and began to formulate community plans to protect neighborhoods against urban renewal, real estate mega-projects, gentrification, and environmental hazards. Angotti, both observer of and longtime participant in New York community(...)
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New York for sale: community planning confronts global real estate
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In New York for Sale, Tom Angotti tells some of the stories of community planning in New York City: how activists moved beyond simple protests and began to formulate community plans to protect neighborhoods against urban renewal, real estate mega-projects, gentrification, and environmental hazards. Angotti, both observer of and longtime participant in New York community planning, focuses on the close relationships among community planning, political strategy, and control over land. After describing the political economy of New York City real estate, its close ties to global financial capital, and the roots of community planning in social movements and community organizing, Angotti turns to specifics. He tells of two pioneering plans forged in reaction to urban renewal plans (including the first community plan in the city, the 1961 Cooper Square Alternate Plan—a response to a Robert Moses urban renewal scheme); struggles for environmental justice, including battles over incinerators, sludge, and garbage; plans officially adopted by the city; and plans dominated by powerful real estate interests. Finally, Angotti proposes strategies for progressive, inclusive community planning not only for New York City but for anywhere that neighborhoods want to protect themselves and their land. New York for Sale teaches the empowering lesson that community plans can challenge market-driven development even in global cities with powerful real estate industries.
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In New York for Sale, Tom Angotti tells some of the stories of community planning in New York City: how activists moved beyond simple protests and began to formulate community plans to protect neighborhoods against urban renewal, real estate mega-projects, gentrification, and environmental hazards. Angotti, both observer of and longtime participant in New York community planning, focuses on the close relationships among community planning, political strategy, and control over land. After describing the political economy of New York City real estate, its close ties to global financial capital, and the roots of community planning in social movements and community organizing, Angotti turns to specifics. He tells of two pioneering plans forged in reaction to urban renewal plans (including the first community plan in the city, the 1961 Cooper Square Alternate Plan—a response to a Robert Moses urban renewal scheme); struggles for environmental justice, including battles over incinerators, sludge, and garbage; plans officially adopted by the city; and plans dominated by powerful real estate interests. Finally, Angotti proposes strategies for progressive, inclusive community planning not only for New York City but for anywhere that neighborhoods want to protect themselves and their land. New York for Sale teaches the empowering lesson that community plans can challenge market-driven development even in global cities with powerful real estate industries.
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November 2008, Cambridge, London
November 2008, Cambridge, London
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This ambitious book describes the many ways in which invention affects the environment (here defined broadly to include all forms of interaction between humans and nature). The book starts with nature itself and then leads readers to examine the built environment and then specific technologies in areas such as public health and energy. Each part focuses on a single(...)
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This ambitious book describes the many ways in which invention affects the environment (here defined broadly to include all forms of interaction between humans and nature). The book starts with nature itself and then leads readers to examine the built environment and then specific technologies in areas such as public health and energy. Each part focuses on a single(...)
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September 2008, Cambridge, London, Washinton
September 2008, Cambridge, London, Washinton
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Inventing for the environment
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This ambitious book describes the many ways in which invention affects the environment (here defined broadly to include all forms of interaction between humans and nature). The book starts with nature itself and then leads readers to examine the built environment and then specific technologies in areas such as public health and energy. Each part focuses on a single environmental issue. Topics range widely, from the role of innovation in urban landscapes to the relationship among technological innovation, public health, and the environment. Each part features an essay by a historian, an essay by a practitioner, and a "portrait of innovation" describing an individual whose work has made a difference. The mixture of historians and practitioners is critical because statements about the environment inevitably measure present and future conditions against those of the past. Early in the industrial revolution, smoke stacks were symbols of prosperity; at its end they were regarded as signs of pollution. Historical examples can also lead to the rediscovery of an old technology, as in the revival of straw bale construction. As it explores the history of invention for the environment, the book suggests many new ways to put the past to use for the common good.
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This ambitious book describes the many ways in which invention affects the environment (here defined broadly to include all forms of interaction between humans and nature). The book starts with nature itself and then leads readers to examine the built environment and then specific technologies in areas such as public health and energy. Each part focuses on a single environmental issue. Topics range widely, from the role of innovation in urban landscapes to the relationship among technological innovation, public health, and the environment. Each part features an essay by a historian, an essay by a practitioner, and a "portrait of innovation" describing an individual whose work has made a difference. The mixture of historians and practitioners is critical because statements about the environment inevitably measure present and future conditions against those of the past. Early in the industrial revolution, smoke stacks were symbols of prosperity; at its end they were regarded as signs of pollution. Historical examples can also lead to the rediscovery of an old technology, as in the revival of straw bale construction. As it explores the history of invention for the environment, the book suggests many new ways to put the past to use for the common good.
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September 2008, Cambridge, London, Washinton
September 2008, Cambridge, London, Washinton
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Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architecture a perspective that is both global and uniquely Japanese. Influenced by post-Bauhaus internationalism, sympathetic to the radical urban architectural vision of Team X, and a(...)
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Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architecture a perspective that is both global and uniquely Japanese. Influenced by post-Bauhaus internationalism, sympathetic to the radical urban architectural vision of Team X, and a(...)
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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September 2008, Cambridge, London
September 2008, Cambridge, London
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Nurturing dreams: collected essays on architecture and the city
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Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architecture a perspective that is both global and uniquely Japanese. Influenced by post-Bauhaus internationalism, sympathetic to the radical urban architectural vision of Team X, and a participant in the avant-garde movement Metabolism, Maki has been at the forefront of his profession for decades. This collection of essays documents the evolution of architectural modernism and Maki's own fifty-year intellectual journey during a critical period of architectural and urban history.
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Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architecture a perspective that is both global and uniquely Japanese. Influenced by post-Bauhaus internationalism, sympathetic to the radical urban architectural vision of Team X, and a participant in the avant-garde movement Metabolism, Maki has been at the forefront of his profession for decades. This collection of essays documents the evolution of architectural modernism and Maki's own fifty-year intellectual journey during a critical period of architectural and urban history.
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September 2008, Cambridge, London
September 2008, Cambridge, London
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Lignes secondaires
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Qu'est-ce qu'un lieu ? Un lieu, c'est là où l'on se pose et se repose, se refait. Un répit dans un voyage ou après un trajet. Autour de ce motif, nous est ici proposé un voyage éthno-poétique. Des lieux d'enfance de l'auteur, de ses terrains d'enquête à ceux, fictifs, d'un arpenteurs, des Pyrénées à la Lozère, d'Ardèche en Creuse, reliés entre eux par le tracé improbable(...)
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Qu'est-ce qu'un lieu ? Un lieu, c'est là où l'on se pose et se repose, se refait. Un répit dans un voyage ou après un trajet. Autour de ce motif, nous est ici proposé un voyage éthno-poétique. Des lieux d'enfance de l'auteur, de ses terrains d'enquête à ceux, fictifs, d'un arpenteurs, des Pyrénées à la Lozère, d'Ardèche en Creuse, reliés entre eux par le tracé improbable(...)
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Qu'est-ce qu'un lieu ? Un lieu, c'est là où l'on se pose et se repose, se refait. Un répit dans un voyage ou après un trajet. Autour de ce motif, nous est ici proposé un voyage éthno-poétique. Des lieux d'enfance de l'auteur, de ses terrains d'enquête à ceux, fictifs, d'un arpenteurs, des Pyrénées à la Lozère, d'Ardèche en Creuse, reliés entre eux par le tracé improbable de petites lignes de chemin de fer, se dessine au fil des pages un éloge des lieux les plus modestes, ou encore mal-aimés. Une famille d'espaces, où chacun pourra se reconnaître. Ces brefs récits nous offrent un autre regard sur les territoires et sur les paysages. Peut-être une nouvelle façon de voyager.
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Qu'est-ce qu'un lieu ? Un lieu, c'est là où l'on se pose et se repose, se refait. Un répit dans un voyage ou après un trajet. Autour de ce motif, nous est ici proposé un voyage éthno-poétique. Des lieux d'enfance de l'auteur, de ses terrains d'enquête à ceux, fictifs, d'un arpenteurs, des Pyrénées à la Lozère, d'Ardèche en Creuse, reliés entre eux par le tracé improbable de petites lignes de chemin de fer, se dessine au fil des pages un éloge des lieux les plus modestes, ou encore mal-aimés. Une famille d'espaces, où chacun pourra se reconnaître. Ces brefs récits nous offrent un autre regard sur les territoires et sur les paysages. Peut-être une nouvelle façon de voyager.
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January 1900, Grâne
January 1900, Grâne
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Berlin, mémoire pendant les travaux pourrait avoir la forme d'un guide imaginaire de Berlin pour ceux qui voudraient s'y perdre. Il raconte l'errance méticuleuse d'une femme dans quelques rues de la ville au cours de l'été 2003..A sa mémoire incertaine d'événements rêvés ou vécus, se mêle la mémoire de la ville, bouleversée par les transformations continues des tracés de(...)
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Berlin, mémoire pendant les travaux pourrait avoir la forme d'un guide imaginaire de Berlin pour ceux qui voudraient s'y perdre. Il raconte l'errance méticuleuse d'une femme dans quelques rues de la ville au cours de l'été 2003..A sa mémoire incertaine d'événements rêvés ou vécus, se mêle la mémoire de la ville, bouleversée par les transformations continues des tracés de(...)
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Berlin, mémoire pendant les travaux pourrait avoir la forme d'un guide imaginaire de Berlin pour ceux qui voudraient s'y perdre. Il raconte l'errance méticuleuse d'une femme dans quelques rues de la ville au cours de l'été 2003..A sa mémoire incertaine d'événements rêvés ou vécus, se mêle la mémoire de la ville, bouleversée par les transformations continues des tracés de rues et des bâtiments depuis la chute du Mur en 1989, et dont la mosaïque des sols garde l'empreinte. Aux images de ce Berlin-là viennent se superposer des visions du Berlin de Moses Mendelssohn, à partir des traces infimes ou reconstituées de cette époque, ou du Berlin des années brunes, dont témoignent, dans la ville, les pavés de cuivre jaune portant les noms des déportés, plantés dans le sol devant leurs anciennes demeures. Hélène Bezençon est née en 1960 à Lausanne. Elle a notamment publié : Les Confessions d'une mangeuse de lune (Vents d'Ouest, 1995), qui a obtenu le prix Canada-Suisse, et : Arrête de rêver, l'Etrangère (L'Age d'Homme, 2000), une pièce de théâtre consacrée à Annemarie Schwarzenbach. Elle vit et travaille à Berlin depuis 1993.
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Berlin, mémoire pendant les travaux pourrait avoir la forme d'un guide imaginaire de Berlin pour ceux qui voudraient s'y perdre. Il raconte l'errance méticuleuse d'une femme dans quelques rues de la ville au cours de l'été 2003..A sa mémoire incertaine d'événements rêvés ou vécus, se mêle la mémoire de la ville, bouleversée par les transformations continues des tracés de rues et des bâtiments depuis la chute du Mur en 1989, et dont la mosaïque des sols garde l'empreinte. Aux images de ce Berlin-là viennent se superposer des visions du Berlin de Moses Mendelssohn, à partir des traces infimes ou reconstituées de cette époque, ou du Berlin des années brunes, dont témoignent, dans la ville, les pavés de cuivre jaune portant les noms des déportés, plantés dans le sol devant leurs anciennes demeures. Hélène Bezençon est née en 1960 à Lausanne. Elle a notamment publié : Les Confessions d'une mangeuse de lune (Vents d'Ouest, 1995), qui a obtenu le prix Canada-Suisse, et : Arrête de rêver, l'Etrangère (L'Age d'Homme, 2000), une pièce de théâtre consacrée à Annemarie Schwarzenbach. Elle vit et travaille à Berlin depuis 1993.
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January 1900, Paris, Tel Aviv
January 1900, Paris, Tel Aviv
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Learning from Las Vegas, originally published by the MIT Press in 1972, was one of the most influential and controversial architectural books of its era. Thirty-five years later, it remains a perennial bestseller and a definitive theoretical text. Its authors--architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour--famously used the Las Vegas Strip to argue the(...)
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Learning from Las Vegas, originally published by the MIT Press in 1972, was one of the most influential and controversial architectural books of its era. Thirty-five years later, it remains a perennial bestseller and a definitive theoretical text. Its authors--architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour--famously used the Las Vegas Strip to argue the(...)
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I am a monument: on learning from Las Vegas
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Learning from Las Vegas, originally published by the MIT Press in 1972, was one of the most influential and controversial architectural books of its era. Thirty-five years later, it remains a perennial bestseller and a definitive theoretical text. Its authors--architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour--famously used the Las Vegas Strip to argue the virtues of the "ordinary and ugly" above the "heroic and original" qualities of architectural modernism. Learning from Las Vegas not only moved architecture to the center of cultural debates, it changed our ideas about what architecture was and could be.
I am a monument: on learning from Las Vegas
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Learning from Las Vegas, originally published by the MIT Press in 1972, was one of the most influential and controversial architectural books of its era. Thirty-five years later, it remains a perennial bestseller and a definitive theoretical text. Its authors--architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour--famously used the Las Vegas Strip to argue the virtues of the "ordinary and ugly" above the "heroic and original" qualities of architectural modernism. Learning from Las Vegas not only moved architecture to the center of cultural debates, it changed our ideas about what architecture was and could be.
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September 2008, Cambridge, London
September 2008, Cambridge, London
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From the fourteenth century on, the artifacts of Western visual culture became increasingly violent. Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, devilish doppelgängers of the sacred: violence made real people nameless exemplars of formless, hideous horror. In Defaced, the historian Valentin Groebner provides a highly sophisticated historical, cultural, and political model(...)
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From the fourteenth century on, the artifacts of Western visual culture became increasingly violent. Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, devilish doppelgängers of the sacred: violence made real people nameless exemplars of formless, hideous horror. In Defaced, the historian Valentin Groebner provides a highly sophisticated historical, cultural, and political model(...)
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Defaced the visual culture of violence in the late middle ages
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From the fourteenth century on, the artifacts of Western visual culture became increasingly violent. Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, devilish doppelgängers of the sacred: violence made real people nameless exemplars of formless, hideous horror. In Defaced, the historian Valentin Groebner provides a highly sophisticated historical, cultural, and political model for understanding how late-medieval images and narratives of “indescribable” violence functioned.
Defaced the visual culture of violence in the late middle ages
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From the fourteenth century on, the artifacts of Western visual culture became increasingly violent. Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, devilish doppelgängers of the sacred: violence made real people nameless exemplars of formless, hideous horror. In Defaced, the historian Valentin Groebner provides a highly sophisticated historical, cultural, and political model for understanding how late-medieval images and narratives of “indescribable” violence functioned.
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December 2008, New York
December 2008, New York
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This international and illustrated work challenges current writings focussing on the problems of urban public space to present a more nuanced and dialectical conception of urban life. Detailed and extensive international urban case studies show how urban open spaces are used for play, which is defined and discussed using Caillois' four-part definition – competition,(...)
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This international and illustrated work challenges current writings focussing on the problems of urban public space to present a more nuanced and dialectical conception of urban life. Detailed and extensive international urban case studies show how urban open spaces are used for play, which is defined and discussed using Caillois' four-part definition – competition,(...)
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The ludic city: exploring the potential of public spaces
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This international and illustrated work challenges current writings focussing on the problems of urban public space to present a more nuanced and dialectical conception of urban life. Detailed and extensive international urban case studies show how urban open spaces are used for play, which is defined and discussed using Caillois' four-part definition – competition, chance, simulation and vertigo. Stevens explores and analyses these case studies according to locations where play has been observed: paths, intersections, thresholds, boundaries and props. Applicable to a wide-range of countries and city forms, The Ludic City is a fascinating and stimulating read for all who are involved or interested in the design of urban spaces.
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This international and illustrated work challenges current writings focussing on the problems of urban public space to present a more nuanced and dialectical conception of urban life. Detailed and extensive international urban case studies show how urban open spaces are used for play, which is defined and discussed using Caillois' four-part definition – competition, chance, simulation and vertigo. Stevens explores and analyses these case studies according to locations where play has been observed: paths, intersections, thresholds, boundaries and props. Applicable to a wide-range of countries and city forms, The Ludic City is a fascinating and stimulating read for all who are involved or interested in the design of urban spaces.
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April 2007, New York
April 2007, New York
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Relearning from Las Vegas
Relearning from Las Vegas
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Immediately on its publication in 1972, "Learning from Las Vegas", by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, was hailed as a transformative work in the history and theory of architecture, liberating those in architecture who were trying to find a way out of the straitjacket of architectural orthodoxies. Resonating far beyond the professional and(...)
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Immediately on its publication in 1972, "Learning from Las Vegas", by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, was hailed as a transformative work in the history and theory of architecture, liberating those in architecture who were trying to find a way out of the straitjacket of architectural orthodoxies. Resonating far beyond the professional and(...)
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January 2009, Minneapolis
January 2009, Minneapolis
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Relearning from Las Vegas
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Immediately on its publication in 1972, "Learning from Las Vegas", by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, was hailed as a transformative work in the history and theory of architecture, liberating those in architecture who were trying to find a way out of the straitjacket of architectural orthodoxies. Resonating far beyond the professional and institutional boundaries of the field, the book contributed to a thorough rethinking of modernism and was subsequently taken up as an early manifestation and progenitor of postmodernism.
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Immediately on its publication in 1972, "Learning from Las Vegas", by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, was hailed as a transformative work in the history and theory of architecture, liberating those in architecture who were trying to find a way out of the straitjacket of architectural orthodoxies. Resonating far beyond the professional and institutional boundaries of the field, the book contributed to a thorough rethinking of modernism and was subsequently taken up as an early manifestation and progenitor of postmodernism.
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January 2009, Minneapolis
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Theme park
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This book takes the primitive amusements of pleasure gardens as its starting point and launches from there into a rich, in-depth investigation of the evolution of the theme park over the twentieth century. Lukas examines theme parks in countries around the world – including the United States, UK, Europe, Japan, China, South Africa and Australia – and how themed fairs and(...)
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This book takes the primitive amusements of pleasure gardens as its starting point and launches from there into a rich, in-depth investigation of the evolution of the theme park over the twentieth century. Lukas examines theme parks in countries around the world – including the United States, UK, Europe, Japan, China, South Africa and Australia – and how themed fairs and(...)
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This book takes the primitive amusements of pleasure gardens as its starting point and launches from there into a rich, in-depth investigation of the evolution of the theme park over the twentieth century. Lukas examines theme parks in countries around the world – including the United States, UK, Europe, Japan, China, South Africa and Australia – and how themed fairs and parks developed through diverse means and in a variety of settings. The book examines world-famous and lesser-known parks, including the early parks of Coney Island, a series of World Fairs and their luxurious exhibition halls, Six Flags parks and virtual theme parks today, and, of course, Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Lukas analyses the theme park as a living entity that unexpectedly shapes people, their relationships and the world around them.
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This book takes the primitive amusements of pleasure gardens as its starting point and launches from there into a rich, in-depth investigation of the evolution of the theme park over the twentieth century. Lukas examines theme parks in countries around the world – including the United States, UK, Europe, Japan, China, South Africa and Australia – and how themed fairs and parks developed through diverse means and in a variety of settings. The book examines world-famous and lesser-known parks, including the early parks of Coney Island, a series of World Fairs and their luxurious exhibition halls, Six Flags parks and virtual theme parks today, and, of course, Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Lukas analyses the theme park as a living entity that unexpectedly shapes people, their relationships and the world around them.
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November 2008, London
November 2008, London
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Urban Theory
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