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M. Jeffrey Hardwick

Mall Maker

Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream

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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 cons… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8122-9299-2
  • EAN: 9780812292992
  • Produktnummer: 20458285
  • Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 4'626 KB
  • Abbildungen: 47 illus.

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