List of places
Introduction
Are contemporary places as bad as some critics claim? Are we building "non-places"? Are we imprisoned in a universal Disneyland? In this text I argue against the concepts used to attack contemporary places as inauthentic or unreal or totally commodified. I develop a new critical perspective that emphasizes the need for complexity in places and fights against oversimplification. We can get beyond criticisms that concentrate on the problems of place today without also seeing their new possibilities. Do our new kinds of places make room for new kinds of community? With places being themed and the past thinned for easy consumption, what can be done? Contemporary places can be improved if we understand their new modes of unity and linkage. Besides exposition and argument, this site also contains narrative scenes of places today, and reflections about philosophical issues lurking in the background.
- Green Gables
- St. Thomas
- Stiles College
- Universal Studios
- Santa Claus Village
- Mexican plaza
- Disneyland's Main St.
- Medieval church
- Planet Hollywood
- Cruise ship design
- Video game arcades
- Japanese ryokan
- Remote villages
- Bilbao museum (Gehry)
- Berlin museum (Mies)
- Las Vegas
- Puroland
- Battery Park City
- Irish bar
- Patterson
- Japanese cities
- Flatland
- Mars
- Inland Sea
- The Riverwalk
- Pure fluidity
- Roman Pantheon
- EU trees
- Irish bars
- Epcot Britain
- Epcot Canada
- Mexico
- Epcot China
- Angkor Wat
- Cruise ships
- Yosemite
- Fuenterrabia
- The Athenian Agora
- Broadacre City
- Battery Park City
- Opryland
- South St. Seaport
- Williamsburg
- Paris Parks
- Ebisu Garden Place
- Murlo
- Virtual Hill Town
- Italian Hill Towns
- Lund
- Malmö
- Disneyland
- Garden City, NY
- Wal-Mart
- Celebration
- Kentlands
- King Farm
- Seaside
- Rosemary Beach
- Natural History Dioramas
- Art Museums
- D.C. Sprawl
- Reston
- Berlin
- St. Quentin-en-Yvelines
- Cergy
- Warsaw
- Krakow
- Hong Kong
- Tokyo
- Roslyn, NY
- New York City
- La Defense
- Austin sprawl
- Orvieto
- Tuscania
- Chemainus
- Scotland
- Maine
- The Matrix
- Sergels Torg
- Temples du lac
- Nara
- Siena's Campo
- Manhattan
- Miami Beach
- Gubbio
- Montepulciano
- Luxembourg Garden
- Second Life
- Spiderman Ride