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Worlds away : new suburban landscapes
- Title
- Worlds away : new suburban landscapes / edited by Andrew Blauvelt.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : Walker Art Center, [2008], ©2008.
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| Text | Use in library | N6512 W897 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 333 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm
- Subjects
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN, Feb.16-Aug. 17, 2008 and at the Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Penn., Oct. 4, 2008-Jan. 18, 2009.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Olga Viso -- Preface. Worlds Away and the World Next Door / Andrew Blauvelt -- Introduction. A conversation with Andrew Blauvelt and Tracy Myers / Katherine Solomonson -- Our Sprawling, Supersize Utopia / David Brooks -- Learning from Levittown: A Conversation with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown / Beatriz Colomina -- In Praise of Chain Stores: They aren't destroying local flavor, they're providing variety and comfort / Virginia Postrel -- The View through the Picture Window: Surveillance and Entrapment Motifs In Suburban Film / Robert Beuka -- Intermediate Landscapes: Constructing Suburbia In Postwar American Photography / Holley Wlodarczyk -- Suburban Aesthetics Is Not an Oxymoron / John Archer -- New Urbanism's Subversive Marketing / Ellen Dunham-Jones -- Campus, Estate,and Park: Lawn Culture Comes to the Corporation / Louise A. Mozingo -- The Afterlife of Big Boxes: Aconversation with Julia Christensen / Andrew Blauvelt -- The Terrazzo Jungle: Fifty years ago, the mall was born. America would never be the same / Malcolm Gladwell -- Learning from Sprawl / Robert Bruegmann -- A Lexicon of Suburban Neologisms / Rachel Hooper and Jayme Yen.
- ISBN
- 9780935640908 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0935640908 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007051213
- OCLC
- ocn184925134
- SCSB-5399351
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries