For this issue we solicited explorations of popular places, places where lots of people, in groups or alone, want to be—amusement parks, museums, famous historic districts, beaches, fashionable stores, etc. We set this agenda to respond to the fact that the quotidian environment is central in our experiences, to diversify our subject matter, and to have some fun. We asked authors to ponder what makes such places popular and what designers might learn from them.
4: Popular Places, plus Books on Cities and Urbanism S/S 1998
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Table of Contents
Essays
Chamber of Humors
Diana’s London
Invisible Spaces
Learning from Commercial Vernacular Architecture
Locally Popular
Manifest Density
No (Popular) Place Like Home
Off-World in the Far West
Small World
Status Quo Vadis?
Television Modernism
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Trespassing on Common Ground
Reviews
Evictions by Rosalyn Deutsche
Postmodern Cities and Spaces edited by Katherine Gibson and Sophie Watson
Public Space edited by Johan Goossens, Anja Guinée, and Wiebe Oosterhoff
Urban Verbs by Kevin R. McNamara
Writings on Cities by Henri Lefebvre translated and edited by Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas
Dialectical Utopias
Fear of Mice
The Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble in Unusual Clothing
Beyond Wilderness and Lawn
Cyber Cities by M. Christine Boyer, The Urban Image of Augustan Rome by M. Diane Favro, Urban World/Global City by David Clark
The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the 20th Century edited by Allen J. Scott and Edward W. Soja
