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Playing Place : Board Games, Popular Culture, Space / edited by Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Thế nào và tại sao.
- The MIT Press Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Board games--History.
- Board games.
- Board games--Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "A smart coffee table book that explores multiple facets of board games, including their design and culture, and conceptions of space and place"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Aspirational Ideals
- Player TV
- Scrabble and the Image of the (Out-of-Work) Architect
- The Domestic Bliss of Life
- Barbie Queen of the Prom
- 2 Contesting Designed and Planned Space
- Skyscraper
- From Monopoly to Taudis-Poly
- Hostile Architecture
- Modeling Factional Urban History
- 3 Landscapes (Real and Imagined)
- Ground Rules
- Uranium Rush
- Mountainous Ambitions
- The Winding Road to Catan
- Blokus
- Historiography in Space
- 4 Icons
- Building for the Ages
- Pillars of the Earth
- Adventures in Disney's Lands
- Masterpiece
- 5 Consuming Place
- Playing and Visiting the 1939 New York World's Fair
- Hanging Out at the Food Court with Electronic Mall Madness
- Boxing Up the Escape Room Experience
- Trump and Racialized Capitalism
- 6 Conquest and Control
- The National Mind as a Prison
- Imperial Board Games for Future Colonists
- Risk Analysis
- Empire Preference
- Encountering Central and South American Cultures
- Pandemic
- 7 Identity, Community, Disparity
- Magical Thinking and Cultural Amnesia on the Western Frontier
- Food Sovereignty as Game Design in The Gift of Food
- The Leisure Divide
- Clued into Elite Sleuthing
- Safe Journi
- Adolf and the King of Siam
- 8 Beyond the Game Table
- Revisiting "the City as Game Board"
- Workshopping Board Games for Space, Place, and Culture
- Tables and Floors
- Gaming Negotiations
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Figure Credits
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Contributor Biographies
- Index.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262373449
- 0262373440
- 9780262373432
- 0262373432
- OCLC:
- 1345640215
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