Making Leisure Work: Architecture and the Experience Economy

"Making Leisure Work" explores architecture's role in the spatial construction of themed experience design and provides a new architectural theoretical framework for its social interpretation. Using cognitive mapping, entertainment capacity design, leisure strategy planning and other techniques this text provides a unique presentation of the detailed mechanisms of spatial control inherent in their architectural rectification. By creatively - and sometimes playfully - integrating ethnographic, historical and semiotic methods, this book unravels the development of what is perhaps one of the most complex and subtly advancing contemporary tools of spatial control. "Making Leisure Work "offers a new theoretical framework for reading contemporary architecture and encourages alternative inquiries into the contemporary social politics of spatial production