Shopping Town : Designing the City in Suburban America /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gruen, Victor, 1903-1980 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Gruen, Michael Stephen, 1941- (writer of afterword.), Baldauf, Anette (Editor , Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Minneapolis : Univ Of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Gruen, Victor, > 1903-1980.
City planners.
Architects.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
ARCHITECTURE > Individual Architects & Firms > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Artists, Architects, Photographers.
Urbanistes > Autriche > Biographies.
Architectes > Autriche > Biographies.
City planners > Austria > Biography.
Architects > Austria > Biography.
Austria.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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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
  • Anette Baldauf
  • Notes
  • Index.

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