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Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption

Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption

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Baseball & SoftballGeneral ArchitectureGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1501769294
ISBN13: 9781501769290
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Jul 15 2023
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Mallparks, Michael T. Friedman observes that as cathedrals represented power relations in medieval towns and skyscrapers epitomized those within industrial cities, sports stadiums exemplify urban American consumption at the turn of the twenty-first century. Grounded in Henri Lefebvre and George Ritzer's spatial theories in their analyses of consumption spaces, Mallparks examines how the designers of this generation of baseball stadiums follow the principles of theme park and shopping mall design to create highly effective and efficient consumption sites.

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