Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
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- Jun 14, 2022
- #History #Architecture
Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce, the agora of the suburbs. In their prim...
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Number of Pages: 320
ISBN: 1635576024
ISBN-13: 9781635576023
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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons
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Dec 16, 2022
I looooved reading about the social and design history of America’s shopping malls from architecture critic, Alexandra Lange. Did you know that the creator of the shopping mall was a European socialist? I did not! During a year that was, personally, marked by gathering in public once again, I was grateful to read and get to think about the spaces that have been designed to foster community. –Kady Ruth Ashcraft