Sprawling Places

(c) David Kolb, 2001

Introduction: A few important words about this text.

An Index or Two

• Some Places

  Angkor Wat Athenian Agora Art Museums Battery Park City Berlin Berlin museum (Mies) Bilbao museum (Gehry) Broadacre City Celebration Cergy le Prefecture Chemainus, BC Colonial Williamsburg Cruise ship design Cruise ship islands D.C. Sprawl Disneyland's Main Street Disneyland EU trees Ebisu Garden Place Epcot Britain Epcot Canada Epcot China Flatland Fuenterrabia Garden City, NY Hong Kong Inland Sea

  Irish bar Italian Hill Towns Japanese cities Japanese ryokan Kentlands King Farm Krakow La Defense Las Vegas duplications La Villette Lublin Lund Maine The Matrix Malmö Mars Medieval church Mexican plaza Mexico Murlo Natural History Dioramas New York City Opryland Orvieto Paris Parks

  Patterson Planet Hollywood Pure fluidity Puroland Reston The Riverwalk Roman Pantheon Rosemary Beach Roslyn, NY Santa Claus Village Scotland Seaside South Street Seaport St. Quentin-en-Yvelines Tuscania Temple Street Market Thrill rides Tokyo Untouristed villages Universal Studio theme park Vaux le Vicomte Video game arcades Virtual Hill Town Warsaw Yosemite

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• Encounters with the spirits of place
  • the subdivision
  • the big box
  • the mall
  • the neighborhood shrine
  • the commercial shrine

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• Discussions and rhapsodies
  • Hypertext and suburbs
  • Tourism: a Waltz with Lucy Lippard
  • Places and Identities
  • Methodological questions
  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City proposals
  • Questions about themed places
  • Kant's notion of judgment extended to include the self
  • Our active-passive relation to social grammars, and other philosophical issues.

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• Outlines of some of the discussion
  • General outline
  • Places today outline
  • Place terms outline
  • Place theory outline
  • Place grammar outline
  • Place making outline
  • Kant outline
  • Commodification outline
  • Themed places outline
  • Sprawl outline
  • Complexity outline
  • New Urbanism outline

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• Three conceptual diagrams
  • Overview
  • Suggested place terminology
  • Kant, Hegel, and others

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• Objections and replies

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• Bibliographical list of articles and books referred to

(c) David Kolb, Saturday, May 5, 2001