TY - BOOK ID - 7759508 TI - Theme park PY - 2008 SN - 1282450654 9786612450655 1861896921 1861893949 PB - London : Reaktion Books, DB - UniCat KW - Amusement parks -- Design and construction. KW - Amusement parks -- History. KW - Amusement parks. KW - Recreation & Sports KW - Social Sciences KW - Amusement parks KW - Design and construction. KW - Funparks KW - Theme parks KW - Amusements KW - Parks KW - Amusement rides UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7759508 AB - Theme parks are a uniquely interactive and enduring form of entertainment that have influenced architecture, technology, and culture in surprising ways for more than a century, as Scott Lukas now reveals in his compelling historical chronicle.Theme Park takes the primitive amusements of pleasure gardens as its starting point and launches from there into a rich, in-depth investigation of the evolution of the theme park over the twentieth century. Lukas examines theme parks in countries around the world-including in the United States, Mexico, Europe, Japan, C ER -