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Variations on a Theme Park - Couverture souple

Sorkin, Michael

 
9780374523145: Variations on a Theme Park
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0374523142 ISBN 13 : 9780374523145
Editeur : Hill and Wang, 1992

Synopsis

America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditional public space--is emerging both at the heart and at the edge of town in megamalls, corporate enclaves, gentrified zones, and psuedo-historic marketplaces. If anything can be described as a paradigm for these places, it's the theme park, an apparently benign environment in which all is structured to achieve maximum control and in which the idea of authentic interaction among citizens has been thoroughly purged. In this bold collection, eight of our leading urbanists and architectural critics explore the emblematic sites of this new cityscape--from Silicon Valley to Epcot Center, South Street Seaport to downtown Los Angeles--and reveal their disturbing implications for American public life.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael Sorkin is an architect and urban planner, and the author and editor of many books, including All Over the Map, Against the Wall, Exquisite Corpse, and Variations on a Theme Park (Hill and Wang, 1992). He lives in New York City.

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Éditeur
Hill and Wang
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0374523142
ISBN 13 
9780374523145
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
270
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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