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Variations on a Theme Park (1992) (edit title/settings)

The New American City and the End of Public Space

by Michael Sorkin (Editor) (edit contributors)

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America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditional public space--is emerging both at the heart and at the edge of town in megamalls, corporate enclaves, gentrified zones, and... read more

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Larger than a hundred football fields, the West Edmonton Mall is, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest shopping mall in the world.

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  1. Michael Sorkin (Editor)

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