Author: Ward, Lock & Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canterbury (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Canterbury, Herne Bay, Whitstable and the Isle of Thanet
Author: Ward, Lock & Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canterbury (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canterbury (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Sandwich, Margate, Canterbury, and North-east Kent
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Category : Kent (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kent (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London and Its Environs
Author:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London and Its Environs
Author: Ward, Lock and Company, ltd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London
Author:
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Category : Franco-British Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Franco-British Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Quarterly Guide for Readers
Author: Finsbury (England). Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London, Its Public Buildings, Leading Thoroughfares, and Principal Objects of Interest
Author: Ward, Lock and Company, ltd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London: Its Public Buildings, Leading Thoroughfares, and Principal Objects of Interest
Author: Ward, Lock & Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London and Its Environs ...
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Architecture of Pleasure
Author: Josephine Kane
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317044746
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The amusement parks which first appeared in England at the turn of the twentieth century represent a startlingly novel and complex phenomenon, combining fantasy architecture, new technology, ersatz danger, spectacle and consumption in a new mass experience. Though drawing on a diverse range of existing leisure practices, the particular entertainment formula they offered marked a radical departure in terms of visual, experiential and cultural meanings. The huge, socially mixed crowds that flocked to the new parks did so purely in the pursuit of pleasure, which the amusement parks commodified in exhilarating new guises. Between 1906 and 1939, nearly 40 major amusement parks operated across Britain. By the outbreak of the Second World War, millions of people visited these sites each year. The amusement park had become a defining element in the architectural psychological pleasurescape of Britain. This book considers the relationship between popular modernity, pleasure and the amusement park landscape in Britain from 1900-1939. It argues that the amusement parks were understood as a new and distinct expression of modern times which redefined the concept of public pleasure for mass audiences. Focusing on three sites - Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Dreamland in Margate and Southend's Kursaal - the book contextualises their development with references to the wider amusement park world. The meanings of these sites are explored through a detailed examination of the spatial and architectural form taken by rides and other buildings. The rollercoaster - a defining symbol of the amusement park - is given particular focus, as is the extent to which discourses of class, gender and national identity were expressed through the design of these parks.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317044746
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The amusement parks which first appeared in England at the turn of the twentieth century represent a startlingly novel and complex phenomenon, combining fantasy architecture, new technology, ersatz danger, spectacle and consumption in a new mass experience. Though drawing on a diverse range of existing leisure practices, the particular entertainment formula they offered marked a radical departure in terms of visual, experiential and cultural meanings. The huge, socially mixed crowds that flocked to the new parks did so purely in the pursuit of pleasure, which the amusement parks commodified in exhilarating new guises. Between 1906 and 1939, nearly 40 major amusement parks operated across Britain. By the outbreak of the Second World War, millions of people visited these sites each year. The amusement park had become a defining element in the architectural psychological pleasurescape of Britain. This book considers the relationship between popular modernity, pleasure and the amusement park landscape in Britain from 1900-1939. It argues that the amusement parks were understood as a new and distinct expression of modern times which redefined the concept of public pleasure for mass audiences. Focusing on three sites - Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Dreamland in Margate and Southend's Kursaal - the book contextualises their development with references to the wider amusement park world. The meanings of these sites are explored through a detailed examination of the spatial and architectural form taken by rides and other buildings. The rollercoaster - a defining symbol of the amusement park - is given particular focus, as is the extent to which discourses of class, gender and national identity were expressed through the design of these parks.