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Worlds away : new suburban landscapes / edited by Andrew Blauvelt.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : Walker Art Center, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Edition: First editionDescription: 333 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0935640908
  • 9780935640908
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.94930774 22
LOC classification:
  • N8251.S56 W67 2008
Contents:
Our sprawling, supersize utopia -- Learning from Levittown: a conversation with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown -- In praise of chain stores: they aren't destroying local flavor--they're providing variety and comfort -- The view through the picture window: surveillance and entrapment motifs in suburban film -- Intermediate landscapes: constructing suburbia in postwar American photography -- Suburban aesthetics is not an oxymoron -- New urbanism's subversive marketing -- Campus, estate, and park: lawn culture comes to the corporation -- The afterlife of big boxes: a conversation with Julia Christensen -- The Terrazzo jungle: fifty years ago, the mall was born. America would never be the same -- Learning from the sprawl -- A lexicon of suburban neologisms.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 704.94930774 WOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A501313B

Catalog of an exhibition at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 16-Aug. 17, 2008 and at the Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Penn., Oct. 4, 2008-Jan. 18, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Our sprawling, supersize utopia -- Learning from Levittown: a conversation with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown -- In praise of chain stores: they aren't destroying local flavor--they're providing variety and comfort -- The view through the picture window: surveillance and entrapment motifs in suburban film -- Intermediate landscapes: constructing suburbia in postwar American photography -- Suburban aesthetics is not an oxymoron -- New urbanism's subversive marketing -- Campus, estate, and park: lawn culture comes to the corporation -- The afterlife of big boxes: a conversation with Julia Christensen -- The Terrazzo jungle: fifty years ago, the mall was born. America would never be the same -- Learning from the sprawl -- A lexicon of suburban neologisms.

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