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Making leisure work : architecture and the experience economy / Brian Lonsway.

By: Lonsway, Brian.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009Description: xiv, 258 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9780415398015 (hbk.); 0415398010 (hbk.).Subject(s): Architecture and recreation | Architecture and society | Commercial buildings -- Social aspects | Architecture -- Economic aspectsDDC classification: 725.8
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Stories about our themed environment. Work, leisure, and the architectural everyday -- The narration of everyday experience -- Space, semiotics, scientism -- The experience of experience. Extreme narrative -- Différant stories -- Entertainment capacity -- The experience of a lifestyle -- Narrative agitations. Telling practices -- Juridical opinion -- Happy potties and other alternative narratives.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Stories about our themed environment. Work, leisure, and the architectural everyday -- The narration of everyday experience -- Space, semiotics, scientism -- The experience of experience. Extreme narrative -- Différant stories -- Entertainment capacity -- The experience of a lifestyle -- Narrative agitations. Telling practices -- Juridical opinion -- Happy potties and other alternative narratives.