Making leisure work
Subtitle: architecture and the experience economy
By: Brian Lonsway.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415398015
Subjects: Architecture and recreation; Architecture and society; Commercial buildings -- Social aspects; Architecture -- Economic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Pt. 1. Stories about our themed environment. Ch. 1. Work, leisure, and the architectural everyday; title: Ch. 2. The narration of everyday experience; title: Ch. 3. Space, semiotics, and scientism; title: Pt. 2. The experience of experience. Ch. 4. Extreme narrative; title: Ch. 5. Différant myths; title: Ch. 6. Entertainment capacity; title: Ch. 7. The experience of a lifestyle; title: Pt. 3. Narrative agitations. Ch. 8. Telling practices; title: Ch. 9. Juridical opinion; title: Ch. 10. Happy potties and other alternative narratives.