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Title: Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream by M. Jeffrey Hardwick, Victor Gruen ISBN: 0-8122-3762-5 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I shopped in his mall!
Comment: My first true mall shopping was done in a Gruen mall, although I was quite unaware at the time of the fascinating story behind this complex man and his vision for America's public spaces.
Thanks to this engaging work by Hardwick, I feel now feel enlightened as I prowl the mall that Gruen built. You don't need to be an architect or a social scientist to enjoy this book because the author makes the subject approachable for the inner shopper in everyone.
Rating: 5
Summary: this is american culture at its best
Comment: A great read and remarkable that no one has written about Gruen before now. if American retail and architecture is your thing, this is a must have. Hardwick captures Gruen in an objective light, in his time, for the reader to judge. can't wait for the next Hardwick bio.
Rating: 5
Summary: What a character
Comment: This book is totally fascinating, although a tad repetitive about retailing theories for my taste. I would never have guessed what an amazing influence Gruen had on American life (and how egotisitical he was). I think the author quotes the architect Philip Johnson saying that Gruen influenced America much more than all the arty modern architects put together. And that is so true. Gruen seemed to anticipate future trends in retailing, city planning, and architecture and then actually build them. The one question that I had was whether or not Gruen was a good guy or only in it for himself.
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Title: Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture by Sharon Zukin ISBN: 0415945976 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: One Nation under Goods: Malls and the Seductions of American Shopping by James J. Farrell ISBN: 1588341526 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Call of the Mall : The Author of Why We Buy on the Geography of Shopping by Paco Underhill ISBN: 0743235916 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 09 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Building Suburbia : Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 by Dolores Hayden ISBN: 0375421289 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Trading Up: The New American Luxury by Michael Silverstein, Neil Fiske ISBN: 1591840139 Publisher: Portfolio Pub. Date: 09 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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