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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Eight essays by architects and academics criticize as elitist and alienating such contemporary urban and extra-urban phenomena as mega-malls, historical re-creations and gentrification. Margaret Crawford uses Canada's West Edmonton Mall as a paradigm of the consumption-oriented pleasure dome. Langdon Winner offers a chilling analysis of Silicon Valley ("a vast suburb with no central city to give it meaning"), while Neil Smith discusses the greed and injustices that accompany the gentrification of New York's Lower East Side. And M. Christine Boyer dissects New York's South Street Seaport as an example of "historicized, commodifed, and privatized places." Nearly all the writers take easy aim at yuppies, as both perpetrators of inequality and victims of consumerist illusions, who care little about the poor and homeless excluded from these havens of affluence. In much softer focus, though, are the governments that have so tragically failed our cities. This bias detracts from an overall thought-provoking collection on our urban malaise. Sorkin is former architecture critic of the Village Voice.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This book offers eight leading architectural critics' views of the sameness that invades our public architecture and public space. Whether we live in California or Boston, shopping malls, office complexes, and other forms of construction offer, according to these essays, an astounding lack of individuality. What does this say about us, the recipients of and dwellers in these spaces? What does it say about our cultural differences that are being sacrificed? Cases in point are given: Montreal's Place Ville Marie, Manhattan's Lower East Side, Houston's The Gallerie shopping center, and others illustrate the placelessness of architecture today. Good reading. For public and special collections.
- Carol Spielman Lezak, General Learning Corp., Northbrook, Ill.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Eight essays by architects and academics criticize as elitist and alienating such contemporary urban and extra-urban phenomena as mega-malls, historical re-creations and gentrification. Margaret Crawford uses Canada's West Edmonton Mall as a paradigm of the consumption-oriented pleasure dome. Langdon Winner offers a chilling analysis of Silicon Valley ("a vast suburb with no central city to give it meaning"), while Neil Smith discusses the greed and injustices that accompany the gentrification of New York's Lower East Side. And M. Christine Boyer dissects New York's South Street Seaport as an example of "historicized, commodifed, and privatized places." Nearly all the writers take easy aim at yuppies, as both perpetrators of inequality and victims of consumerist illusions, who care little about the poor and homeless excluded from these havens of affluence. In much softer focus, though, are the governments that have so tragically failed our cities. This bias detracts from an overall thought-provoking collection on our urban malaise. Sorkin is former architecture critic of the Village Voice.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This book offers eight leading architectural critics' views of the sameness that invades our public architecture and public space. Whether we live in California or Boston, shopping malls, office complexes, and other forms of construction offer, according to these essays, an astounding lack of individuality. What does this say about us, the recipients of and dwellers in these spaces? What does it say about our cultural differences that are being sacrificed? Cases in point are given: Montreal's Place Ville Marie, Manhattan's Lower East Side, Houston's The Gallerie shopping center, and others illustrate the placelessness of architecture today. Good reading. For public and special collections.
- Carol Spielman Lezak, General Learning Corp., Northbrook, Ill.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
See all Editorial Reviews
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