Mall maker : Victor Gruen, architect of an American dream / M. Jeffrey Hardwick.

Publication | Library Call Number: NA737.G78 H37 2004

Physical Description: 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Gruen effect
Escaping from Vienna to Fifth Avenue's glitter
Wartime planning for postwar prosperity
Seducing the suburban autoist
A "shoppers' paradise" for suburbia
Planning the new "suburbscape"
Saving our cities
The suburbanization of downtown.
Other Authors/Editors: Gruen, Victor, 1903-1980.
ISBN: 0812237625
9780812237627 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-268) and index.

The Gruen effect -- Escaping from Vienna to Fifth Avenue's glitter -- Wartime planning for postwar prosperity -- Seducing the suburban autoist -- A "shoppers' paradise" for suburbia -- Planning the new "suburbscape" -- Saving our cities -- The suburbanization of downtown.
Subjects: Expatriate architects--United States--Biography.
Architects--Austria--Biography.
Stores, Retail--United States--History--20th century.
Shopping malls--United States--History--20th century.
Gruen, Victor,--1903-
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