Pedestrian Modern Shopping and American Architecture, 1925-1956 |
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| Author:
| Smiley, David |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-8421-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $105.00USD $105.00 |
Book Description:
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In Pedestrian Modern, David Smiley reveals how the design for places of consumption--stores and shopping centers--informed emerging modernist tenets. Tracing the history of architecture's relationship with retail environments during a time of significant transformation in urban centers and in open suburban landscapes, Pedestrian Modern expands and qualifies the making of American modernism.
In Pedestrian Modern, David Smiley reveals how the design for places of consumption--stores and shopping centers--informed emerging modernist tenets. Tracing the history of architecture's relationship with retail environments during a time of significant transformation in urban centers and in open suburban landscapes, Pedestrian Modern expands and qualifies the making of American modernism.