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Jan 17, 2012 · Variations on a theme park : the new American city and the end of public space. by. Sorkin, Michael, 1948-. Publication date. 1992. Topics. Cities and towns, City planning, City and town life, Public spaces. Publisher. New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Mar 1, 1992 · Eight essays by architects and academics criticize as elitist and alienating such contemporary urban and extra-urban phenomena as mega-malls, historical re-creations and gentrification. Margaret Crawford uses Canada's West Edmonton Mall as a paradigm of the consumption-oriented pleasure dome.
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Mar 1, 1992 · 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.
Jan 1, 2001 · 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.
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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...
Jan 1, 1992 · Margaret Crawford (Southern California Institute of Architecture) describes the world's largest shopping mall in Edmonton, Alberta, a prime example of the prevailing controlled-fantasy urbanism; though the wares duplicate those sold in other malls, the mall's theme-settings purport to bring the world, in a developer's words, ``all here for you ...
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Mar 1, 1992 · 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.
