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Sprawling Places
How to explore this text
I want to say
Outline of my argument
General summary of the argument
Critiques of places today
Place words used with special meanings
What makes an area into a place?
Places have social grammar
Place making as a process
Complexity as a criterion
Commodification critiques
Issues with themed places
New Urbanism, yes and no
Sprawl: What to do
Questions about my key concepts
The importance of links
Place norms and formal systems
Getting into practical details
Questioning new kinds of unity
Honest and deceptive places
Making sweeping claims?
Place grammar and social norms
My distinction of systems from places
Postmodern self-consciousness in Chemainus
Open vs closed horizons
Do places need distinct characters?
Seeing context and links?
The moment: simple or complex?
Questioning complexity as a criterion
Rates and levels of change
Themed places: thick or thin?
Against suburban sprawl
About landscapes and fields
Against mediation
Speaking from the inside
Everyday effects
Some detailed topics and background
Tourism and Authenticity
Non-hierarchical unities: Hypertext and suburbia
Discontinuous places
Wright's Broadacre City
Places and identities
Method: Let it be
More about themed places
Our relation to social grammars
Philosophical maneuvers
Philosophical background
Kantian influences
The spirits of new places
The spirit of the big box
The spirit of the subdivision
The spirit in the mall
The spirit of the local shrine
The spirit of the business shrine
List of Places Discussed
List of books and articles
index
Virtual reversals
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Web site for the 2005 Matrix fan game
For some less than obvious comments that reverse what you might think about virtual reality in
the film
The Matrix
, see
Zizek 1999.
[Nearby:
The Matrix ]
