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Eight leading urbanists and architectural critics explore the emblematic sites of the new American cityscape - from Silicon Calley to Epcot Center, South Street Seaport to downtown Los Angeles - and reveal their disturbing implications for American public life. Essays by Langdon Winner, Neil Smith, Trevor Boddy, Edward W. Soja, Margaret Crawford, Mike Davis, M Christine Boyer and Michael Sorkin.The creeping enervation of the megamalls, gentrified zones, corporate enclaves & the psuedo-benign - & their implications for public, private & political life. |