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Worlds Away New Suburban Landscapes

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ISBN-10: 0935640908

ISBN-13: 9780935640908

Edition: 2008

Authors: Andrew Blauvelt, John Archer, David Brooks, Robert Bruegmann, Beatriz Colomina

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The suburbs have always been a fertile space for imagining both the best and the worst of modern social life. Portrayed alternately as a middle-class domestic utopia and a dystopic world of homogeneity and conformity--with manicured suburban lawns and the inchoate darkness that lurks just beneath the surface--these stereotypes belie a more realistic understanding of contemporary suburbia and its dynamic transformations. Organized by the Walker Art Center in association with the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art, "Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes" is the first major museum exhibition to examine both the art and architecture of the contemporary American suburb.…    
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Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Walker Art Center
Publication date: 2/16/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Richard E. Tremblay, PhD, is Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Montreal and Director of the Inter-University Research Unit on Children's Psychosocial Maladjustment. For over 20 years, he has conducted a program of longitudinal and experimental studies addressing the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development of children from conception onward to understand the development and prevention of antisocial behavior. Willard W. Hartup, EdD, is Regents' Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Hartup has spent many years researching friendship and peer relations in child…    

Beatriz Colomina is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. She is the editor of Sexuality and Space, which was awarded the International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects. She is the coeditor of Cold War Hot Houses: Inventing Postwar Culture from Cockpit to Playboy. Her most recent book is Doble exposici�n: Arquitectura a trav�s del arte.

Foreword
Worlds Away and the World Next Door
A conversation with Andrew Blauvelt and Tracy Myers
Our Sprawling, Supersize Utopia
Learning from Levittown: A Conversation with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
In Praise of Chain Stores: They aren't destroying local flavor, they're providing variety and comfort
The View through the Picture Window: Surveillance and Entrapment Motifs In Suburban Film
Intermediate Landscapes: Constructing Suburbia In Postwar American Photography
Suburban Aesthetics Is Not an Oxymoron
New Urbanism's Subversive Marketing
Campus, Estate,and Park: Lawn Culture Comes to the Corporation
The Afterlife of Big Boxes: Aconversation with Julia Christensen
The Terrazzo Jungle: Fifty years ago, the mall was born. America would never be the same
Learning from Sprawl
A Lexicon of Suburban Neologisms
Artist Biographies
Exhibition Checklist
Index
Lenders to the Exhibition
Reproduction Credits