Theme Park

Informationen zum Autor Scott A. Lukas is Department Chair in Anthropology and Sociology at Lake Tahoe College, California, USA. He is also the Editor of The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nation, and Self (2007). Klappentext Theme parks are a uniquely interactive and enduring form of entertainment that have influenced architecture, technology and culture in surprising ways for more than a century. Taking primitive amusements of pleasure gardens as its starting point, this book offers an investigation of the evolution of the theme park over the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung Theme parks are a uniquely interactive and enduring form of entertainment that have influenced architecture! technology and culture in surprising ways for more than a century. Taking primitive amusements of pleasure gardens as its starting point! this book offers an investigation of the evolution of the theme park over the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Lukas, Scott A. Lukas
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2008
• EAN: 9781861893949
• ISBN: 978-1-86189-394-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Objekt; Objekt
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Amusement & Theme Parks, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings, Theme Parks & Funfairs, Travel guides: theme parks and funfairs