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Shopping town : designing the city in suburban America / Victor Gruen ; edited and translated by Anette Baldauf.
Author
Gruen, Victor, 1903-1980
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Uniform title
Shopping town.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Description
xiv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Available Online
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Architecture Library - Stacks
NA1011.5.G76 A2 2017
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Subject(s)
Expatriate architects
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United States
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Biography
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Architects
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Austria
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Biography
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Stores, Retail
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Shopping malls
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United States
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History
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20th century
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City planners
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Austria
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Biography
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Gruen, Victor 1903-1980
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Editor
Baldauf, Anette
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Translator
Baldauf, Anette
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Summary note
"Victor Gruen was one of the twentieth century's most influential architects and is regarded as the father of the U.S. shopping mall. In spring 1979, less than a year before his death, he began reconstructing his life story. Now available in English for the first time, Shopping Town is the long overdue account of a man whose work fundamentally altered the course of city development. Shopping Town opens in Vienna in 1938 with the Anschluss--the turning point in Gruen's life--as he narrowly escaped the Nazi regime. A few years later, in the suburbs of postwar America, the Jewish refugee sought to reproduce the vitality of Vienna's city center and invented the commercial apparatus now known as the shopping mall. Gruen's Southdale Mall in Edina, Minnesota, was the first fully enclosed shopping center in America. He then translated the concept to economically neglected city centers, setting the path for pedestrian zones and fighting passionately for an urban ideal without compromise. Highlighting Gruen's sense of humor as well as reflections on the complex forces that sustained the postwar transformation of American cities, Shopping Town embeds Gruen's experiences and perspectives in a wider social and political context while helping us understand his problematic place in American architectural culture. With afterwords by his son and daughter, Shopping Town closes with Anette Baldauf's richly insightful essay on the legacy of Victor Gruen"-- Provided by publisher.
Notes
"A different version of Shopping Town appeared in German as Shopping Town: Memoiren eines Stadtplaners (1903/1980) by Victor Gruen, edited by Anette Baldauf, with essays in English by Michael Gruen and Peggy Gruen (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2014)."
Translated from the German.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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Contents
Preface: Why Victor Gruen?
Anette Baldauf
Book Project
Victor Gruen
Introduction
1. Vienna 1938
2. Flashback
3. Discovering America
4. The Big Breakthrough
5. The Storm
6. Architectura
7. Environmental Planning
Epilogue
Afterword
Michael Gruen
More About My Mother
Peggy Gruen
Consumed? The Heritage of Victor Gruen
Notes
Index.
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ISBN
9781517902094 (hardcover)
1517902096 (hardcover)
9781517902100 (paperback :)
151790210X (paperback)
LCCN
2017000440
OCLC
962254656
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