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City center to regional mall : architecture, the automobile, and retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950 / Richard Longstreth.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HF5429.5.L7 L66 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Longstreth, Richard W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Central business districts--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area--History.
- Central business districts.
- Retail trade--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area--History.
- Retail trade.
- Automobiles--Social aspects--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area--History.
- Automobiles.
- City and town life--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area--History.
- City and town life.
- Shopping centers.
- Stores, Retail.
- History.
- Automobiles--Social aspects.
- California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 504 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- First MIT paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- Ten years in the making, City Center to Regional Mall is a sweeping yet detailed account of the development of the regional shopping center. Richard Longstreth takes a historical perspective, relating retail development to broader architectural, urban, and cultural issues. His story is far from linear; the topics he covers include the emergence of Hollywood as a downtown in miniature, experiments with the shopping center as an amenity of planned residential developments, the branch department store as a landmark of decentralization, the evolution of off-street parking facilities, and the obscure origins of the pedestrian mall as a spine for retail complexes. Longstreth takes seriously the task of looking at retail buildings - one of the most neglected yet common of building types - and at the economics of real estate in the American city. He shows that Los Angeles in the period covered was a harbinger of American metropolitan trends during the second half of this century. Over 250 illustrations, culled from a wide variety of sources, constitute one of the best collections of old LA photographs published anywhere.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-[471]) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0262122006
- 0262621258
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