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Object:
to adopt ambient urban protocols and narratives with which to generate environments
conducive to consumption, the so-called "public" space of commercial culture.
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APGM
creates a genteel form of family urbanism around the traditions of the golf
game. The most maudlin sentiments surround the playing of this game that
one learns from one's father. While in Asia and elsewhere, the golf course
can sometimes be a feature of an urban park, in America, the surface area
of a golf course is homesteading territory. New housing developments feed
off of the country club aura. A giganticized version of the Radburn superblock
has been put to use to generate large arterials with discrete cul-de sac
pods of development. The golf course can gradually be surrounded with lots
that continue to grow in value and quickly begin to relieve large debt incurred
by land purchases but, unlike a grid they can be gradually phased. Developments
managed by Arnold Palmer Golf are the rewards that the privileged give to
themselves for bearing the responsibilities of leading a privileged life.
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