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This book argues that an in-depth investigation into the production of privately-owned, public-access spaces is seriously needed in order to understand how public space and the associated public policy can be designed not to protect basic civil rights and to take into account the essential interest to the private owners of these spaces. Taking the theme park as a type of privately-owned, public-access space where such conditions are brought to the extreme, this book uses the theme park as a 'laboratory environment' to identify, dissect and describe the properties of new, hybrid forms of public spaces emerging in urban environments worldwide \"Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space employs the theme park in identifying, dissecting and describing the properties of PROPASt - privately-owned publicly accessible space in a themed mode - a hybrid form of public space emerging in urban environments worldwide. Mitrasinovic does not propose that theme parks and PROPASt are, or will ever become, desirable substitutes for democratic public space, but deliberately cuts across the 'theme park model' in order to understand the principle of systematic totality employed when such a model is us

Author

MIODRAG MITRASINOVIC, Miodrag Mitraésinovic, Miodrag Mitrašinović, Mitrasinovic, Miodrag

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351878753

Subjects

Architecture, Art, Business