Shopping Town: Designing the City in Suburban America
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Publishing Details
Shopping Town: Designing the City in Suburban America
By (Author) Victor Gruen
Edited by Anette Baldauf
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st July 2017
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Individual photographers
Individual architects and architectural firms
Biography: general
History of the Americas
Local history
720.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
328
Width 178mm, Height 254mm, Spine 38mm
Description
Shopping Town is the long overdue account of the father of the shopping mall, whose work fundamentally altered the course of city development. Highlighting Victor Gruen's sense of humor and reflections on the postwar transformation of American cities, it embeds his experiences and perspectives in a wider social and political context while revealing his problematic place in American architectural culture.
Reviews
"Victor Gruen may well have been the most influential architect of the twentieth century. He invented the mall."Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker
"Gruen offers readers insight into one of the most significant cultural and economic powerhouses of the mid-century: the suburban shopping mall."New York-Pennsylvania Collector
Author Bio
Victor Gruen (19031980) was an architect and planner who specialized in a range of retail landscapes. He was the author of The Heart of Our Cities and Shopping Towns USA.
Anette Baldauf is professor of epistemology and methodology at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria. She is the author or coauthor of several books in German.
