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Paperback / softback. New. 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 mantle of modernism, the merchandising problems and possibilities of main streets, cities, and suburbs became legitimate-if also conflicted-responsibilities of the architectural profession.In Pedestrian Modern, David Smiley reveals how the design for places of consumption informed emerging modernist tenets. The architect was viewed as a coordinator and a site planner-modernist tropes particularly well suited to merchandising. Smiley follows this development from the twenties and thirties, when glass and transparency were equated with modernist rationality; to the forties, when cities and congestion presented considerable hurdles for…
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Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925-1956 Paperback - 2013
by David Smiley
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- Title Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925-1956
- Author David Smiley
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Minnesota Press
- Date 2013
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780816679300 / 0816679304
- Weight 2.02 lbs (0.92 kg)
- Dimensions 9.9 x 7 x 0.8 in (25.15 x 17.78 x 2.03 cm)
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- Aspects (Academic): Architectural
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Library of Congress subjects Consumer behavior - United States - History, Architecture and society - United States -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013003504
- Dewey Decimal Code 725.210
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