America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditional

The prevalence and influence of "theming" increased so dramatically during the 1990s that theme parks have become a metaphor for postmodern urban life. But few

What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even

A photographic retrospective covers more than 100 years of images from the history of the American amusement park.

This book provides an ethnographic contribution to research on children’s consumption, family life and happiness. Various and shifting notions of happiness ar