Public Space and the Ideology of Place in American Culture

Abstract

Miles ORVELL & Jeffrey L. MEIKLE: Introduction Part One: Public Space as Symbol Anna MINTA: Planning a National Pantheon: Monuments in Washington, D.C., and the Creation of Symbolic Space John F. SEARS: 'How the Devil It Got There': The Politics of Form and Function in the Smithsonian 'Castle' Torben Huus LARSEN: The Museum of Appalachia and the Invention of an Idyllic Past Miles ORVELL: Constructing Main Street: Utopia and the Imagined Past Jeffrey L. MEIKLE: Pasteboard Views: Idealizing Public Space in American Postcards, 1931-1953 Part Two: Contesting Public Space Nadine KLOPFER: 'Terra Incognita' in the Heart of the City? Montreal and Mount Royal around 1900 Peter B. HALES: Grid, Regulation, Desire Line: Contests Over Civic Space in Chicago Laura LAWSON: The Precarious Nature of Semi-Public Space: Community Garden Appeal, Complacency, and Implications for Sustaining User-Initiated Places Kay F. EDGE: Buy, Sell, Roam: The Airport Calculus of Retail Bryant SIMON: Consuming Third Place: Starbucks and the Illusion of Public Space Rickie SANDERS: The Public Space of Urban Communities Part Three: The Mutability of Public Space Eric J. SANDEEN: Walking the High Line Kerstin SCHMIDT: The Search for a Democratic Architecture: A New Sense of Space and the Reconfiguration of American Architecture Timothy DAVIS: Designed Space vs. Social Space: Intention and Appropriation in an American Urban Park David E. NYE: Public Space Transformed: New York's Blackouts Sarah LURIA: Air and Space Andrew S. GROSS: Imagining the Interstate: Henry Miller, Post-Tourism, and the Disappearance of American Place Klaus BENESCH: Writing Grounds: Ecocriticism, Dumping Sites, and the Place of Literature in a Posthuman Age