Pedestrian modern : shopping and American architecture, 1925-1956 / David Smiley.
Pedestrian modern : shopping and American architecture, 1925-1956 / David Smiley.
Pedestrian modern : shopping and American architecture, 1925-1956 / David Smiley.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Date
2013.
Call Numbers
G 2013/3883
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xi, 357 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- 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 -- C...
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Publisher
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Place of Publication
Minnesota
Date Published
2013.
[2013]
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- ARCHITECTURE / History / General
- ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
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Scope and Contents
Summary
" 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 modernist architectural thought and practice. Under the...
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Pedestrian modern : shopping and American architecture, 1925-1956 / David Smiley.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2013/3883
Record Identifier
74VKqWRjwv0X
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKqWRjwv0X
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ISBN
0816679304 (pb)
9780816679294 (hardback)
0816679290 (hardback)
9780816679300 (pb)
DDC
725.2109730904
MMS ID
991020306539702626
