Meaning of theme parking | Babel Free

Definitions

The transformation into something resembling a theme park.

derogatory, uncountable

Examples

“But Broadway's economic survival would be a Pyrrhic victory of sorts if artistic invention is slowly leached out in an attempt to make the Great White Way a New York outpost of the theme park–ing of America.”

““Theme parking” is also an accusation leveled against many recent urban development schemes as well as the creation of new private public spaces (such as malls).”

“Architecture and urban design can also function as critical artistic practices that allow us to capture something more elusive than what is represented by notions such as the theme-parking of cities.”

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