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020			_a9780816684212
020			_a0816684219
020			_z9780816679294 (hardback)
020			_z9780816679300 (pb)
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aNA6212 _b.S65 2013
082	0	0	_a725/.2109730904 _223
100	1		_aSmiley, David J., _d1958-
245	1	0	_aPedestrian modern _h[electronic resource] : _bshopping and American architecture, 1925-1956 / _cDavid Smiley.
260			_aMinneapolis : _bUniversity of Minnesota Press, _c2013. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 357 pages :) _billustrations ;
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Centers and Peripheries -- 1. The Store Problem -- 2. Machines for Selling -- 3. "Park and Shop" -- 4. Pedestrianization Takes Command -- 5. The Cold War Pedestrian -- 6. The Language of Modern Shopping -- Conclusion: Pedestrian Modern Futures -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
520			_a" 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 shopping district design and, at the same time, when modern concerns about the pedestrian deeply affected city and neighborhood planning; to the early fifties, when both urban shopping districts and suburban shopping centers became large-scale modernist undertakings. Although interpreting the tools and principles of modernism, designs for shopping never quite shed the specter of consumption. Tracing the history of architecture's relationship with retail environments during a time of significant transformation in urban centers and in open suburban landscapes, Smiley expands and qualifies the making of American modernism. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aARCHITECTURE / History / General. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aConsumer behavior _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aArchitecture and society _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aCommercial buildings _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780816684212/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c34342 _d34342