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Mall Maker
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Author : M. Jeffrey Hardwick
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2015-08-18
Mall Maker written by M. Jeffrey Hardwick and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-18 with Architecture categories.
The shopping mall is both the most visible and the most contentious symbol of American prosperity. Despite their convenience, malls are routinely criticized for representing much that is wrong in America—sprawl, conspicuous consumption, the loss of regional character, and the decline of Mom and Pop stores. So ubiquitous are malls that most people would be suprised to learn that they are the brainchild of a single person, architect Victor Gruen. An immigrant from Austria who fled the Nazis in 1938, Gruen based his idea for the mall on an idealized America: the dream of concentrated shops that would benefit the businessperson as well as the consumer and that would foster a sense of shared community. Modernist Philip Johnson applauded Gruen for creating a true civic art and architecture that enriched Americans' daily lives, and for decades he received praise from luminaries such as Lewis Mumford, Winthrop Rockefeller, and Lady Bird Johnson. Yet, in the end, Gruen returned to Europe, thoroughly disillusioned with his American dream. In Mall Maker, the first biography of this visionary spirit, M. Jeffrey Hardwick relates Gruen's successes and failures—his work at the 1939 World's Fair, his makeover of New York's Fifth Avenue boutiques, his rejected plans for reworking entire communities, such as Fort Worth, Texas, and his crowning achievement, the enclosed shopping mall. Throughout Hardwick illuminates the dramatic shifts in American culture during the mid-twentieth century, notably the rise of suburbia and automobiles, the death of downtown, and the effect these changes had on American life. Gruen championed the redesign of suburbs and cities through giant shopping malls, earnestly believing that he was promoting an American ideal, the ability to build a community. Yet, as malls began covering the landscape and downtowns became more depressed, Gruen became painfully aware that his dream of overcoming social problems through architecture and commerce was slipping away. By the tumultuous year of 1968, it had disappeared. Victor Gruen made America depend upon its shopping malls. While they did not provide an invigorated sense of community as he had hoped, they are enduring monuments to the lure of consumer culture.
Official Report Of The Calcutta International Exhibition 1883 84
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Official Report Of The Calcutta International Exhibition 1883 84 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Handicraft categories.
From Main Street To Mall
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Author : Vicki Howard
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2015-06-04
From Main Street To Mall written by Vicki Howard and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-04 with Business & Economics categories.
Richly illustrated with archival photos, this comprehensive study of the American department store industry traces the changing economic and political contexts that brought about the decline of downtown shopping districts and the rise of big-box stores and suburban malls.
Acoustic Territories
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Author : Brandon LaBelle
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-04-01
Acoustic Territories written by Brandon LaBelle and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Music categories.
A remarkable exploration of how sound permeates all aspects of life - from the streets to our homes, and from shopping malls to the underground.
Former Clock Watchmakers And Their Work
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Author : Frederick James Britten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Former Clock Watchmakers And Their Work written by Frederick James Britten and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Clock and watch makers categories.
Mall City
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Author : Stefan Al
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2016-11-30
Mall City written by Stefan Al and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-30 with Architecture categories.
Hong Kong is the twenty-first-century paradigmatic capital of consumerism. Of all places, it has the densest and tallest concentration of malls, reaching tens of stories. Hong Kong’s malls are also the most visited, sandwiched between subways and skyscrapers. These mall complexes have become cities in and of themselves, accommodating tens of thousands of people who live, work, and play within a single structure. Mall City features Hong Kong as a unique rendering of an advanced consumer society. Retail space has come a long way since the nineteenth-century covered passages of Paris, which once awed the bourgeoisie with glass roofs and gaslights. It has morphed from the arcade to the department store, and from the mall into the “mall city”—where “expresscalators” crisscross mesmerizing atriums. Highlighting the effects of this development in Hong Kong, this book raises questions about architecture, city planning, culture, and urban life.
Public Documents Of Massachusetts
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Author : Massachusetts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
Public Documents Of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with categories.
Target Markets International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism In The Mall
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Author : Suzi Mirgani
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2017-03-31
Target Markets International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism In The Mall written by Suzi Mirgani and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-31 with Political Science categories.
This book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalist and terrorist practice. Assessing an increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed at commercial entities in urban areas, with an emphasis on the shopping mall in general and Nairobi's Westgate Mall in particular, Suzi Mirgani offers a fascinating and disturbing perspective on the spaces where the most powerful forces of contemporary culture - the most mainstream and the most extreme - meet on common ground.
The Singapore Mall Generation
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Author : Dr Liew Kai Khiun
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Release Date : 2022-04-15
The Singapore Mall Generation written by Dr Liew Kai Khiun and has been published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-15 with Social Science categories.
Yesterday’s malls as today’s heritage. This book unearths Singapore’s latent histories, cultures and communities that grew within its now ageing modern shopping centres, envisioned in the 1960s futuristically as “Arcades in the Air”. Contributors for this edited book highlight some of such unexpected narratives from the pioneering “Planned Shopping Centres”. They include: malls as historical and photographical sites, as homes for pioneering arcade gamers, youths cultures and veteran rock musicians, and as platforms for artistic imaginations and exhibitions. As largely individually owned shops units within the buildings, the older malls have also fostered more diverse and autonomous communities and businesses. Amidst Singapore’s constantly changing urban landscape, these otherwise dated shopping centres stand precariously as venerable sites of collective social and cultural memories. Includes essays from: Chua Beng Huat, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Darren Soh, Roy Kheang, Eunice Lim, Elena Yeo, Steve Ferzacca, Kar-men Cheng, Wee Li Lin
Cheap
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Author : Ellen Ruppel Shell
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-07-02
Cheap written by Ellen Ruppel Shell and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-02 with Business & Economics categories.
A myth-shattering investigation of the true cost of America's passion for finding a better bargain From the shuttered factories of the Rust Belt to the strip malls of the Sun Belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little- examined obsession with bargains is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time, having fueled an excess of consumerism that blights our landscapes, escalates personal debt, lowers our standard of living, and even skews of our concept of time. Spotlighting the peculiar forces that drove Americans away from quality, durability, and craftsmanship and towards quantity, quantity, and more quantity, Ellen Ruppel Shell traces the rise of the bargain through our current big-box profusion to expose the astronomically high cost of cheap.