Título:
Meet me by the fountain : an inside history of the mall / Alexandra Lange.
ISBN:
9781635576023
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Información de publicación:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
©2022
Descripción física:
310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Contenido:
Introduction: Why we go to the mall -- Every day will be a perfect shopping day -- The garden -- The mall and the public -- Make shopping beside the point -- Whose mall is it anyway? -- Dawn of the Dead mall -- The postapocalyptic mall -- Conclusion: The mall abroad.
Síntesis:
Since their birth in the 1950s, malls have been temples of commerce. Amid the aftershocks of financial crises, a global pandemic, and the rise of online retail, abandoned shopping centers have become one of our era's defining images. Lange chronicles the postwar invention of the mall, and shows how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in the cultural ascent. She shows that they are environments of both freedom and exclusion, of consumerism but also of community. -- adapted from jacket
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on1325579853
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