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Theme park landscapes : antecedents and variations / edited by Terence Young and Robert Riley.

Title
Theme park landscapes : antecedents and variations / edited by Terence Young and Robert Riley.
Author
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (20th)
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, ©2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Young, Terence (Terence G.)
  • Riley, Robert B.
  • Dumbarton Oaks.
Description
300 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm
Subject
  • Parks > Congresses
  • Gardens > Congresses
  • Landscape architecture > Congresses
  • Parcs > Congrès
  • Jardins > Congrès
  • Architecture du paysage > Congrès
  • 21.74 landscape architecture and garden design
  • Gardens
  • Landscape architecture
  • Parks
  • Themaparken
  • Landschapsarchitectuur
  • Parques
  • Arquitetura paisagística (congressos)
  • Jardins
  • Parcs
  • Jardins
  • Art des jardins
Genre/Form
  • v – Proceedings.
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Congresses (form)
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • "Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XX"--Page [i].
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Grounding the myth : theme park landscapes in an era of commerce and nationalism / Terence Young -- The past as a theme park / David Lowenthal -- Toward distinguishing among theme park publics : William Chambers's landscape theory vs. his Kew practice / Richard Quaintance -- Rhetoric, authenticity, and reception : the eighteenth-century landscape garden, the modern theme park, and their audiences / Edward Harwood -- Pleasure gardens, theme parks, and the picturesque / Heath Schenker -- The fiddler's indecorous nostalgia / Michel Conan -- The museum and the joy ride : Williamsburg landscapes and the specter of theme parks / Edward A. Chappell -- Virtue and irony in a U.S. national park / Terence Young -- The old/new theme park : the American agricultural fair / Carla I. Corbin -- Theme park, themed living : the case of Huis Ten Bosch [Japan] / Marc Treib -- Landscapes of theme park rides : media, modes, messages / Brenda J. Brown -- Chinese theme parks and national identity / Nick Stanley.
ISBN
  • 0884022854
  • 9780884022855
LCCN
2002019400
OCLC
49326889
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library