Landscapes of Power : from Detroit to Disney World. / txt
Sharon Zukin.
- xii, 326 p. ill. ; 23 cm. book
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-319) and index.
Contents: IX List of Illustrations -- XI Acknowledgments -- Introduction 1 -- 1. Market , Place , and Landscape 3 -- 2. " Creative Destruction " : The Inner Landscape 25 -- 3. The Urban Landscape 39 -- Five Twentieth - Century Landscapes 55 -- 4. Steeltown : Power and Autonomy in Weirton , West Virginia 59 -- 5. Motown' s Steeltown : The Power of Productive Labor in Detroit 103 -- 6. The Mill and the Mall : Power and Homogeneity in Westchester County 135 -- 7. Gentrification , Cuisine , and the Critical Infrastructure : Power and Centrality Downtown 179 -- 8. Disney World : The Power of Façade / The Facade of Power 217 -- Conclusion 251 -- 9. Moral Landscapes 253 -- Notes 277 -- Index 321 --
Ilustrations: Janet K. Ruttenberg, After Leonardo (1990) 2 -- Paul Strand, ''Wall Street, New York,1915'' 24 -- Battery Park City, New York (1989) 40 -- Charles Sheeler, American Landscape (1930) 58 -- Catherine Redmond, Afternoon Light: Simultaneous and Sequential (1987) 104 -- I.M. Pei, IBM facility, Somers, New York (1989) 134 -- Figure 1. Boards od directors of major corporate employers, Westchester County, 1955 - 85 163 -- Cesar Pelli, Winter Garden, World Financial Center, New York City (1988) 178 -- EPCOT, Disney World, Fkorida (1990) 216 -- Michael Graves, Historical Center of Industry and Labor, Youngstown, Ohio (1986 - 90) 252 -- Figure 2. Circuits of cultural capital : gentrification 262 -- Figure 3. Circuits of cultural capital: Disney World 264 -- Map 1. Commercial development and median annual household income in Westchester County towns 137 --
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