Pedestrian modern : : shopping and American architecture, 1925-1956 / / David Smiley.
" Too close to the wiles and calculations of consumption, stores and shopping centers are generally relegated to secondary, pedestrian status in the history of architecture. And yet, throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century, stores and shopping centers were an important locus of m...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Minneapolis : : University of Minnesota Press,, [2013] 2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (372 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
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- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Centers and Peripheries
- 1. The Store Problem
- 2. Machines for Selling
- 3. "Park and Shop"
- 4. Pedestrianization Takes Command
- 5. The Cold War Pedestrian
- 6. The Language of Modern Shopping
- Conclusion: Pedestrian Modern Futures
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.