Includes index. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Dark satanic malls -- - The New Man: mimesis and immanence -- - The New American Landscape: ego and Egotopia -- - The myth of travel and the necessity of motion -- - The aesthetics of the New Man: Beauty R Us -- - Billboards: dominant visual modality of the New American Landscape -- - The commercialization of public space -- - The American landscape that might have been -- - The innate Philistinism of the environmental movement -- - Democracy, therapy, and the triumph of bad taste -- - Breaking the spell: The future of the New American Landscape
"Metaphoridcally, the ugliness of America's great suburban sprawl is the physical manifestation of our increasing narcissism--our egotopia."