Dean MacCannell

Professor Emeritus DEAN MacCANNELL has two pet projects at the moment. His long-term research on "landscaping the unconscious" has taken on new proportions to include work on the "future of the city." In this effort, he is joined by collaborators Juliet Flower MacCannell and Bernie Lubell. In addition, he has also helped secure two-year funding for an experimental residential treatment facility for chronically homeless women and children in Yolo County. He serves as head of the Project Evaluation team for this new facility.

MacCannell's classic book, The Tourist: A new Theory of the Leisure Class has just been republished in a new edition by The University of California Press (1999) with a "Foreword" by critic Lucy Lippard, and a new "Epilogue" by the author. The results of MacCannell's study of ten thousand case files of homeless clients of county services just appeared in California County Journal (July/August, 1999). His critical study of Disney's new town of Celebration, Florida just appeared under the title, "New Urbanism and its Discontents," in Joan Copjec and Michael Sorkin (eds.) Giving Ground: The Politics of Propinquity, Verso(1999). His article, "The Curse of J.B. Jackson" is about to appear in Design Book Review.