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Mall maker : Victor Gruen, architect of an American dream / M. Jeffrey Hardwick.
Fine Arts Library NA737.G78 H37 2004
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LIBRA NA737.G78 H37 2004
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA737.G78 H37 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hardwick, M. Jeffrey.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gruen, Victor, 1903-1980.
- Gruen, Victor.
- Expatriate architects--United States--Biography.
- Expatriate architects.
- Architects--Austria--Biography.
- Architects.
- Stores, Retail--United States--History--20th century.
- Stores, Retail.
- Shopping malls--United States--History--20th century.
- Shopping malls.
- History.
- United States.
- Austria.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, [2004]
- Summary:
- The enclosed shopping mall, now so ubiquitous, was invented by one man: Victor Gruen.
- Contents:
- Introduction. The Gruen Effect
- Escaping from Vienna to Fifth Avenue
- How Main Street stole Fifth Avenue's glitter
- Wartime planning for postwar prosperity
- Seducing the suburban autoist
- A "shoppers' paradise" for suburbia
- Planning the new "suburbscape"
- Saving our cities
- The suburbanization of downtown
- Conclusion. "Those bastard developments" and Gruen's legacy
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Design: John Hubbard
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-268) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Given to the Penn Libraries by Margy Ellin Meyerson in memory of her husband, President Emeritus Martin Meyerson.
- Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch.
- ISBN:
- 0812237625
- OCLC:
- 52775220
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