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Description for Sprawling Places
Paperback. People often bemoan the spread of malls, suburban strips, subdivisions, and other sprawling places in contemporary America. But are these places as bad as critics claim? This work questions widely held assumptions about our built environments. Num Pages: 248 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMVD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
People often bemoan the spread of malls, suburban strips, subdivisions, and other sprawling places in contemporary America. But are these places as bad as critics claim? In ""Sprawling Places"", David Kolb questions widely held assumptions about our built environments.Kolb agrees there is a lot not to like about many contemporary places, but to write them off simply as commodified ""nonplaces"" does not treat them critically. Too often, Kolb says, aesthetic character and urban authenticity are the focus of critics, when it is more important to understand a place's complexity and connectedness. Kolb acknowledges that the places around us increasingly have ... Read more
People often bemoan the spread of malls, suburban strips, subdivisions, and other sprawling places in contemporary America. But are these places as bad as critics claim? In ""Sprawling Places"", David Kolb questions widely held assumptions about our built environments.Kolb agrees there is a lot not to like about many contemporary places, but to write them off simply as commodified ""nonplaces"" does not treat them critically. Too often, Kolb says, aesthetic character and urban authenticity are the focus of critics, when it is more important to understand a place's complexity and connectedness. Kolb acknowledges that the places around us increasingly have ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820329895
SKU
V9780820329895
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