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Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping
centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that
effortlessly moves across national and cultural borders in the
slipstream of neo-liberal globalization, or should instead be
understood as a geographically and temporally bound expression of
negotiations between mall developers (representatives of a global
logic of capitalist accumulation) on the one hand, and local actors
(architects/governments/citizens) on the other. It explores how the
shopping centre adapts to new cultural contexts, and questions
whether this commercial type has the capacity to disrupt or even
amend the conditions that it encounters. Including more than 50
illustrations, this book considers the evolving architecture of
shopping centres. It would be beneficial to academics and students
across a number of areas such as architecture, urban design,
cultural geography and sociology.
Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping
centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that
effortlessly moves across national and cultural borders in the
slipstream of neo-liberal globalization, or should instead be
understood as a geographically and temporally bound expression of
negotiations between mall developers (representatives of a global
logic of capitalist accumulation) on the one hand, and local actors
(architects/governments/citizens) on the other. It explores how the
shopping centre adapts to new cultural contexts, and questions
whether this commercial type has the capacity to disrupt or even
amend the conditions that it encounters. Including more than 50
illustrations, this book considers the evolving architecture of
shopping centres. It would be beneficial to academics and students
across a number of areas such as architecture, urban design,
cultural geography and sociology.
Shopping Towns Europe is the first book to explore the introduction
and dissemination of the shopping centre in Europe. European
shopping centres are often assumed to be no more than carbon copies
of their American precursors - however the wide-ranging case
studies featured in this book reveal a very different story.
Drawing connections between architectural history, political
economy and commerce, together these studies tell us much about the
status and role of modernist design, the history of consumption,
and the rapidly-changing social, urban, and national contexts of
post-war Europe. The book's 18 chapters explore case studies
spanning the continent on both sides of the Iron Curtain, from
Britain and The Netherlands to Sweden and the USSR. The focus is on
the three decades following the first introduction of the new
typology in 1945, tracing the variety of typological manifestations
that occurred in widely different contexts, from Keynesianism to
communism to military dictatorship. The book also explores the role
of the shopping centre in urban reconstruction, and examines how
new shopping centres were designed to elicit specifically modern
behaviour and introduce new conceptions of collectivity into
citizens' everyday lives. Please note that due to permissions
restrictions, several images which do appear in the print edition
of this book do not feature in the ebook versions.
Shopping Towns Europe is the first book to explore the introduction
and dissemination of the shopping centre in Europe. European
shopping centres are often assumed to be no more than carbon copies
of their American precursors - however the wide-ranging case
studies featured in this book reveal a very different story.
Drawing connections between architectural history, political
economy and commerce, together these studies tell us much about the
status and role of modernist design, the history of consumption,
and the rapidly-changing social, urban, and national contexts of
post-war Europe. The book's eighteen chapters explore case studies
spanning the continent on both sides of the Iron Curtain, from
Britain and The Netherlands to Sweden and the USSR. The focus is on
the three decades following the first introduction of the new
typology in 1945, tracing the variety of typological manifestations
that occurred in widely different contexts, from Keynesianism to
communism to military dictatorship. The book also explores the role
of the shopping centre in urban reconstruction, and examines how
new shopping centres were designed to elicit specifically modern
behaviour and introduce new conceptions of collectivity into
citizens' everyday lives. Please note that due to permissions
restrictions, several images which do appear in the print edition
of this book do not feature in the ebook versions.
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