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Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space
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Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space Paperback - 1992 - 1st Edition

by Michael Sorkin (Editor)


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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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  • Title Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space
  • Author Michael Sorkin (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1992-03-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780374523145 / 0374523142
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Library of Congress subjects Public spaces - United States, City and town life - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91022976
  • Dewey Decimal Code 307.760

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Citations

  • Booklist, 02/15/1992, Page 1073
  • Library Journal, 02/01/1992, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/20/1991, Page 0

About the author

Michael Sorkin, an architect and writer, teaches at Cooper Union and Yale, and is the author of The Exquisite Corpse. For ten years, he was the archtecture critic of The Village Voice.

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