Magic Lands

Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940

Häftad, Engelska, 1992

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The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes - Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - John Findlay shows how each created a sense of cohesion and sustained people's belief in their superior urban environment. This first book-length study of the urban West after 1940 argues that Westerners deliberately tried to build cities that differed radically from their eastern counterparts. In 1954, Walt Disney began building the world's first theme park, using Hollywood's movie-making techniques. The creators of Stanford Industrial Park were more hesitant in their approach to a conceptually organized environment, but by the mid-1960s the Park was the nation's prototypical 'research park' and the intellectual downtown for the high-technology region that became Silicon Valley. In 1960, on the outskirts of Phoenix, Del E. Webb built Sun City, the largest, most influential retirement community in the United States.Another innovative cityscape arose from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and provided a futuristic, somewhat fanciful vision of modern life. These four became 'magic lands' that provided an antidote to the apparent chaos of their respective urban milieus. Exemplars of a new lifestyle, they are landmarks on the changing cultural landscape of postwar America.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1992-10-28
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor394
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520084353

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION 1The Explosive Metropolis:Urbanization in the Far West After 1940 Growth and Its Discontents People and Cities in Motion Cities out of Control Chaos, Community, and Culturein the Urban West 2Disneyland: The Happiest Place on Earth The Urbanization of Disneyland A Controlled Western Environment To Soothe and to Sell: ManagingCustomers at Disneyland Disneyland in the Customer's Mind Disneyland and Southern CaliforniaA Disney World 3Stanford Industrial Park: Downtown for Silicon ValleyThe Origins of the Park A Suburban Campus for Industry From "Garden of the World"to Silicon Valley Urban Order in Silicon Valley 4Sun City, Arizona: New Town for Old Folks Retirement in Postwar America Packaging Paradise: The Beginningof Sun City From Retirement Communityto Resort Town The Retirees' Community Becomesa Hometown Growing Together: Sun Cityand Phoenix 5The Seattle World's Fair of 1962:Downtown and Suburbs in the Space Age The Downtown Origins of the FairAn American Temple of Science Suburbia at Century 21 The Future According to 1962 Century 21's Legacy to Seattle 6Western Cityscapes and American Culture The Urban West as a Chosen LandConstructing Meaning in theWestern Metropolis Building a Legible City A Sense of Place LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY INDEX