Playing place : board games, popular culture, space

Book

Playing place : board games, popular culture, space / edited by Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky.

Randl, Chad, (editor.). Lasansky, D. Medina, (editor.).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780262047838
ISBN: 0262047837
Physical Description: xxxvii, 230 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Introduction / Chad Randl, D. Medina Lasansky, deals -- Aspirational ideals. Player TV : board games in TV land / Lynn Spigel ; Scrabble and the image of the (out-of-work) architect / Athanasiou Geolas ; The domestic bliss of Life / D. Medina Lasansky ; Barbie queen of the prom / Alice T. Friedman -- Contesting designed and planned space. Skyscraper : replaying epic battles between regionalism and metropolitanism / Jennifer Minner ; From monopoly to taudis-poly / Samia Henni ; Hostile architecture : Burgle Bros., interdiction, and spatial politics / Rowan Tulloch ; Playing out tough decisions in urban planning history : Cross Bronx Expressway / Chad Randl -- Landscapes (real and imagined). Ground rules : strategic abstraction in terrace / Justin Fowler ; Uranium rush : the radioactive gimmick / Emily Blair ; Mountainous ambitions : Himalayan board games and the British Empire / Ruth Lo ; The winding road to Catan / Mark Morris ; Blokus : from ornament to territory / David Salomon ; Historiography in space : approaches in commercial wargame board design / Maurice Suckling -- Icons. Building for the ages : Egyptian-themed board games / Bob Brier ; Pillars of the earth : building a fantasy / Maile Hutterer ; Adventures in Disney's lands : theme park-themed games / Trudi Sandmeier ; Masterpiece : putting the museum on auction / Jeremy Braddock -- Consuming places. Playing and visiting the 1939 New York world's fair / Amy F. Ogata ; Hanging out at the food court with electronic mall madness / Chad Randl ; Boxing up the escape room experience / Marco Arnaudo ; Trump and racialized capitalism / Whitten Overby -- Conquest and control. The national mind as a prison : fortress America / Jonathan Bullinger and Aaron Trammell ; Imperial board games for future colonists / Diana Garvin ; Risk analysis : mapping conquest on the game board / Andrew Shanken ; Empire preference : interwar British trade games / Holly Nielsen ; Encountering Central and South American cultures / D. Medina Lasansky ; Pandemic : when the abstract becomes concrete / José P. Zagel -- Identity, community, disparity. Magical thinking and cultural amnesia on the Western frontier / Abigail Van Slyck ; Food sovereignty as game design in the gift of food / Elizabeth LaPensée ; The leisure divide : board games and race / Dianne Harris ; Clued into elite sleuthing / D. Medina Lasansky ; Safe journi : negotiating roads and culture in Nigeria / Kenechukwu Ogbuagu ; Adolf and the king of Siam / Richard A. Ruth -- Beyond the game table. Revisiting "the city as game board" / Dale Leorke and Troy Innocent ; Workshopping board games for space, place, and culture / Erik Champion Juan Hiriart ; Tables and floors : the playscapes of board games / Chad Randl ; Gaming negotiations : creating community and democratic space / Quilian Riano -- Conclusion.