Title: The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion (Profusely illustrated)
Publisher: The New Press
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1565840550
ISBN 13: 9781565840553
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good

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This text examines society's attitude towards the proliferation of invented environments such as theme parks and shopping malls. It argues that "real" architecture is losing a battle with user-friendly, themed products of a profit-driven culture of marketing, consumerism and entertainment.

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Examines America's preference for invented environments theme parks, shopping malls, historic restorations, heritage marketplaces, new towns like Disney's Celebration, and the latest developer dream houses. Huxtable ( The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered ), suggests that art and architecture today reflect a view of reality detached from the

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