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Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space (1st Edition) by Michael Sorkin (Editor) Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1992 ISBN-10: 0-374-52314-2 / 0374523142 ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52314-5 / 9780374523145 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 psuedo-historic |