LEADER 05369nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910455430903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-59459-1 010 $a9786612594595 010 $a90-420-2878-5 010 $a1-4416-1340-4 024 7 $a10.1163/9789042028784 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764723 035 $a(EBL)556881 035 $a(OCoLC)644525117 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000341988 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11284346 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341988 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10269872 035 $a(PQKB)10590557 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556881 035 $a(OCoLC)644525117$z(OCoLC)402597296$z(OCoLC)659500218$z(OCoLC)988438888$z(OCoLC)991974050 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789042028784 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556881 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380643 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL259459 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764723 100 $a20090710d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aPublic space and the ideology of place in American culture$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Miles Orvell & Jeffrey L. Meikle 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York $cRodopi$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (461 p.) 225 1 $aArchitecture, technology, culture ;$v3 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2574-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tPreliminary Material -- $tIntroduction /$rMiles Orvell and Jeffrey L. Meikle -- $tPlanning a National Pantheon: Monuments in Washington, D.C. and the Creation of Symbolic Space /$rAnna Minta -- $t\'How the Devil It Got There?: The Politics of Form and Function in the Smithsonian ?Castle? /$rJohn F. Sears -- $tThe Museum of Appalachia and the Invention of an Idyllic Past /$rTorben Huus Larsen -- $tConstructing Main Street: Utopia and the Imagined Past /$rMiles Orvell -- $tPasteboard Views: Idealizing Public Space in American Postcards, 1931?1953 /$rJeffrey L. Meikle -- $t?Terra Incognita? in the Heart of the City? Montreal and Mount Royal Around 1900 /$rNadine Klopfer -- $tGrid, Regulation, Desire Line: Contests over Civic Space in Chicago /$rPeter Bacon Hales -- $tThe Precarious Nature of Semi-Public Space: Community Garden Appeal, Complacency, and Implications for Sustaining User-Initiated Places /$rLaura Lawson -- $tBuy, Sell, Roam: The Airport Calculus of Retail /$rKay F. Edge -- $tConsuming Third Place: Starbucks and the Illusion of Public Space /$rBryant Simon -- $tThe Public Space of Urban Communities /$rRickie Sanders -- $tWalking the High Line /$rEric J. Sandeen -- $tThe Search for a Democratic Architecture: A New Sense of Space and the Reconfiguration of American Architecture /$rKerstin Schmidt -- $tDesigned Space vs. Social Space: Intention and Appropriation in an American Urban Park /$rTimothy Davis -- $tPublic Space Transformed: New York?s Blackouts /$rDavid E. Nye -- $tAir and Space /$rSarah Luria -- $tImagining the Interstate: Henry Miller, Post-Tourism, and the Disappearance of American Place /$rAndrew S. Gross -- $tWriting Grounds: Ecocriticism, Dumping Sites, and the Place of Literature in a Posthuman Age /$rKlaus Benesch -- $tContributors. 330 $aWe typically take public space for granted, as if it has continuously been there, yet public space has always been the expression of the will of some agency (person or institution) who names the space, gives it purpose, and monitors its existence. And often its use has been contested. These new essays, written for this volume, approach public space through several key questions: Who has the right to define public space? How do such places generate and sustain symbolic meaning? Is public space unchanging, or is it subject to our subjective perception? Do we, given the public nature of public space, have the right to subvert it? These eighteen essays, including several case studies, offer convincing evidence of a spatial turn in American studies. They argue for a re-visioning of American culture as a history of place-making and the instantiation of meaning in structures, boundaries, and spatial configurations. Chronologically the subjects range from Pierre L?Enfant?s initial majestic conceptualization of Washington, D.C. to the post-modern realization that public space in the U.S. is increasingly a matter of waste. Topics range from parks to cities to small towns, from open-air museums to airports, encompassing the commercial marketing of place as well as the subversion and re-possession of public space by the disenfranchised. Ultimately, public space is variously imagined as the site of social and political contestation and of aesthetic change. 410 0$aArchitecture, technology, culture ;$v3. 606 $aPublic spaces$zUnited States 606 $aPublic architecture$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPublic spaces 615 0$aPublic architecture 676 $a720.973 701 $aOrvell$b Miles$0629390 701 $aMeikle$b Jeffrey L.$f1949-$0911003 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455430903321 996 $aPublic space and the ideology of place in American culture$92052835 997 $aUNINA