[ebooks] Primary Care Centres by Geoffrey Purves at Arts-Photography

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The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces; but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapesmdash;Disneyland; Stanford Industrial Park; Sun City; and the 1962 Seattle Worlds Fairmdash;John Findlay shows how each created a sense of cohesion and sustained peoples belief in their superior urban environment. This first book-length study of the urban West after 1940 argues that Westerners deliberately tried to build cities that differed radically from their eastern counterparts.In 1954; Walt Disney began building the worlds first theme park; using Hollywoods movie-making techniques. The creators of Stanford Industrial Park were more hesitant in their approach to a conceptually organized environment; but by the mid-1960s the Park was the nations prototypical "research park" and the intellectual downtown for the high-technology region that became Silicon Valley.In 1960; on the outskirts of Phoenix; Del E. Webb built Sun City; the largest; most influential retirement community in the United States. Another innovative cityscape arose from the 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair and provided a futuristic; somewhat fanciful vision of modern life.These four became "magic lands" that provided an antidote to the apparent chaos of their respective urban milieus. Exemplars of a new lifestyle; they are landmarks on the changing cultural landscape of postwar America.