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Author Campbell, Mark, 1970- author.

Title Paradise lost / Mark Campbell
Published London : Architectural Association, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (127 pages) : color illustrations
Summary This book explores the notion of architectural obsolescence through a study of the contemporary United States. While the US was the world's greatest economic, scientific and cultural force during the twentieth century, it now appears to be obsessed with its own decline. In this obsession the changing patterns of consumption and demand often result in an architectural redundancy where buildings exist as a form of by-product or residue. While our stereotypical image of the US reflects the heroic potential of production, this book examines the opposite of that which isn't work. Or, more pointedly, those abandoned pleasures and lost paradises that remain when then no longer any work left to define them
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 13, 2019)
Subject Abandoned buildings -- United States
Abandoned buildings -- Social aspects -- United States
ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
Architecture and Planning.
Abandoned buildings
Economic history
Architecture and Planning.
SUBJECT United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001001975
United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Subject United States
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781907896699
1907896694