Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World - Hardcover

Zukin, Sharon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520072219 ISBN 13: 9780520072213

Publisher: Univ of California Pr, 1991

Synopsis

Examines locations ranging from industrial complexes to theme parks in Florida and California to examine how the creative destruction of landscape reflects changes in American economic and social life

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Zukin's ability to integrate spatial, economics, and cultural analysis--all in the context of vibrant industrial and community histories, and in the service of a forceful condemnation of the continuation of inequality and discrimination in the process of economic change--place her in the admirable company of such distinguished urbanists as Gordon Clark, Manuel Castells, John Logan, Harvey Molotch, Saskia Sassen, and especially David Harvey."--Bennett Harrison, co-author of The Deindustrialization of America "Now more than ever, and in the future even more than now, everybody's personal identity, and every collective hope, depend on complex mediation between the local and global. Sharon Zukin, in Landscapes of Power, gives us a brilliant example of the kind of multidimensional thinking we are all going to need."--Marshall Berman, author of All That is Solid Melts into Air

From the Back Cover:

Great social transformations mark both an end and a beginning . In the structural changes of the past twenty-years, Americans have struggled to defined which elements of their lives have been destroyed forever and which are in the process of being created. Swiftly fading from mind are the industrial prosperity that was guaranteed by U.S. dominance in the world economy and a shared middle-class way of life that was accessible by work and skill.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of California Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0520072219
• ISBN 13: 9780520072213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 338