Theme Park Landscapes: Antecedents and Variations

edited by Terence Young and Robert Riley

Terence Young, Grounding the Myth-Theme Park Landscapes in an Era of Commerce and Nationalism

David Lowenthal, The Past as a Theme Park

Richard Quaintance, Toward Distinguishing among Theme Park Publics: William Chambers's Landscape Theory vs. His Kew Practice

Edward Harwood, Rhetoric, Authenticity, and Reception: The Eighteenth-Century Landscape Garden, the Modern Theme Park, and Their Audiences

Heath Schenker, Pleasure Gardens, Theme Parks, and the Picturesque

Michel Conan, The Fiddler's Indecorous Nostalgia

Edward A. Chappell, The Museum and the Joy Ride: Williamsburg Landscapes and the Specter of Theme Parks

Terence Young, Virtue and Irony in a U.S. National Park

Carla I. Corbin, The Old/New Theme Park: The American Agricultural Fair

Marc Treib, Theme Park, Themed Living: The Case of Huis Ten Bosch [Japan]

Brenda J. Brown, Landscapes of Theme Park Rides: Media, Modes, Messages

Nick Stanley, Chinese Theme Parks and National Identity

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, 20

2002 308 pages 178 illus. 7 x 10 inches $28.00

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