Public space and the ideology of place in American culture / / edited by Miles Orvell & Jeffrey L. Meikle.
We typically take public space for granted, as if it has continuously been there, yet public space has always been the expression of the will of some agency (person or institution) who names the space, gives it purpose, and monitors its existence. And often its use has been contested. These new essa...
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| Superior document: | Architecture, technology, culture ; 3 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Architecture, technology, culture ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (461 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Miles Orvell and Jeffrey L. Meikle
- Planning a National Pantheon: Monuments in Washington, D.C. and the Creation of Symbolic Space / Anna Minta
- \'How the Devil It Got There”: The Politics of Form and Function in the Smithsonian “Castle” / John F. Sears
- The Museum of Appalachia and the Invention of an Idyllic Past / Torben Huus Larsen
- Constructing Main Street: Utopia and the Imagined Past / Miles Orvell
- Pasteboard Views: Idealizing Public Space in American Postcards, 1931–1953 / Jeffrey L. Meikle
- “Terra Incognita” in the Heart of the City? Montreal and Mount Royal Around 1900 / Nadine Klopfer
- Grid, Regulation, Desire Line: Contests over Civic Space in Chicago / Peter Bacon Hales
- The Precarious Nature of Semi-Public Space: Community Garden Appeal, Complacency, and Implications for Sustaining User-Initiated Places / Laura Lawson
- Buy, Sell, Roam: The Airport Calculus of Retail / Kay F. Edge
- Consuming Third Place: Starbucks and the Illusion of Public Space / Bryant Simon
- The Public Space of Urban Communities / Rickie Sanders
- Walking the High Line / Eric J. Sandeen
- The Search for a Democratic Architecture: A New Sense of Space and the Reconfiguration of American Architecture / Kerstin Schmidt
- Designed Space vs. Social Space: Intention and Appropriation in an American Urban Park / Timothy Davis
- Public Space Transformed: New York’s Blackouts / David E. Nye
- Air and Space / Sarah Luria
- Imagining the Interstate: Henry Miller, Post-Tourism, and the Disappearance of American Place / Andrew S. Gross
- Writing Grounds: Ecocriticism, Dumping Sites, and the Place of Literature in a Posthuman Age / Klaus Benesch
- Contributors.