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    This excerpt discusses how enclosed shopping malls and theme parks have replaced traditional public spaces in American cities. It explores how these privately owned spaces control behavior and limit expression more than open downtown areas. While economically successful, they have ended up isolating people and weakening a sense of shared community.

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    This excerpt discusses how enclosed shopping malls and theme parks have replaced traditional public spaces in American cities. It explores how these privately owned spaces control behavior and limit expression more than open downtown areas. While economically successful, they have ended up isolating people and weakening a sense of shared community.

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    Fortress Los Angeles The Militarization of Urban Space

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    This excerpt discusses how enclosed shopping malls and theme parks have replaced traditional public spaces in American cities. It explores how these privately owned spaces control behavior and limit expression more than open downtown areas. While economically successful, they have ended up isolating people and weakening a sense of shared community.

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    Sorkin, editor;Variations on a theme park : the new American city and the end of public space; Hill &

    Wang, 1992; pgs. 154-180; 244-247

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