Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. Already a member? Sign in.
Frequently Bought Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping by the Author of Why We Buy by Paco Underhill |
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture by William R. Leach |
by Alex Wall
|
by Paco Underhill
|
by Professor James B. Twitchell
|
Editorial Reviews
Review
"An insightful account...Gruen believed that the self-contained mall would become 'the center of cultural activities and recreation.'" -- New York Times, Book Review, June 27, 2004
"Victor Gruen may well have been the most influential architect of the twentieth century. He invented the mall." -- Malcom Gladwell, The New Yorker, March 15, 2004
"important book...Gruen's buildings are more lived in than ...any other modern architect makes him a designer worth reading about." -- Metropolis Magazine, February 2004
[Hardwick's] Mall Maker, a deeply researched (the detailed endnotes are marvelous), conventional narrative, concentrates on Gruen's impact on American society... -- The Atlantic Monthly, November 2006
Review
See all Editorial Reviews
"An insightful account...Gruen believed that the self-contained mall would become 'the center of cultural activities and recreation.'" -- New York Times, Book Review, June 27, 2004
"Victor Gruen may well have been the most influential architect of the twentieth century. He invented the mall." -- Malcom Gladwell, The New Yorker, March 15, 2004
"important book...Gruen's buildings are more lived in than ...any other modern architect makes him a designer worth reading about." -- Metropolis Magazine, February 2004
[Hardwick's] Mall Maker, a deeply researched (the detailed endnotes are marvelous), conventional narrative, concentrates on Gruen's impact on American society... -- The Atlantic Monthly, November 2006
Review
"Mall Maker is an important book. . . . The fact that Gruen's buildings are more lived in than the work of nearly any other modern architect makes him a designer worth reading about.--Metropolis
"Victor Gruen, a Jew and a socialist who fled Vienna after the Anschluss in 1938, went on to become one of the most successful store architects in the United States. . . . But Gruen disliked suburbs, automobiles, and even shopping, according to Mall Maker, an insightful account by M. Jeffrey Hardwick. . . . In lucid prose remarkably free of jargon Hardwick, an editor at Smithsonian Books, concludes that malls did not transform the environment but simply created more sprawl."--New York Times
"Hardwick methodically traces Gruen's career trajectory, his relationship to his mostly business clients, the fawning media, and the public at large. He explores in depth many of his most significant projects. . . . Mr. Hardwick's thesis is compelling, and it is shared by today's growing legion of New Urbanists: instead of saving the city, Gruen inadvertently contributed to its demise."--Washington Times
"Hardwick brings fresh insight into the specific role of shopping centers in spawning the twin evils of sprawl and urban decline."--Enterprise & Society
"Mall Maker is an important book. In the first chapter Hardwick writes that Gruen was part of the generation of émigré architects that includes Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, and Marcel Bruer. . . . Yet it is Gruen, far more than the others, whose buildings define the American landscape. . . . And the fact that Gruen's buildings are more lived in than the work of nearly any other modern architect makes him a designer worth reading about.--Metropolis
See all Editorial Reviews
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
"A good storefront is one of your best salesmen," designer Victor Gruen once informed merchants. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
urban liberator, modern store design, postwar shopping center, store modernization, shopping center designs, flexible ceiling, suburban retailing, retail architecture, shopping center construction, retail design, commercial architect, planned shopping center, impulse sales, enclosed shopping center, shopping atmosphere, retail work, suburban shopping centers, rooftop parking, postwar city, retail projects, store designs, regional shopping centers, two department stores, theater friends, urban renewal plans Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fort Worth, New York, Architectural Forum, Fifth Avenue, Los Angeles, Victor Gruen, Midtown Plaza, Chain Store Age, World War, Morris Ketchum, United States, Business Week, Larry Smith, Architectural Record, Chamber of Commerce, Morris Lapidus, San Francisco, Progressive Architecture, Women's Wear Daily, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Shopping Towns, Texas Electric, Southern California, Linda Vista, Pencil Points New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
"A good storefront is one of your best salesmen," designer Victor Gruen once informed merchants. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
urban liberator, modern store design, postwar shopping center, store modernization, shopping center designs, flexible ceiling, suburban retailing, retail architecture, shopping center construction, retail design, commercial architect, planned shopping center, impulse sales, enclosed shopping center, shopping atmosphere, retail work, suburban shopping centers, rooftop parking, postwar city, retail projects, store designs, regional shopping centers, two department stores, theater friends, urban renewal plans Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fort Worth, New York, Architectural Forum, Fifth Avenue, Los Angeles, Victor Gruen, Midtown Plaza, Chain Store Age, World War, Morris Ketchum, United States, Business Week, Larry Smith, Architectural Record, Chamber of Commerce, Morris Lapidus, San Francisco, Progressive Architecture, Women's Wear Daily, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Shopping Towns, Texas Electric, Southern California, Linda Vista, Pencil Points New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 96
books:
See all 96 books this book cites
1
book
cites this book:
- Face to Face (43 Light Street, Book 13) by Rebecca York on 6 pages
- Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture by William R. Leach on 4 pages
- Real Estate (Roadmap Law Course Outlines) by Robin Paul Malloy in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- World Book by World Book Encyclopedia on page 202, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Public Relations (Teach Yourself) by J.Harvey Smith in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
See all 96 books this book cites
- American Playgrounds: Revitalizing Community Space by Susan G. Solomon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?
 |
71% buy the item featured on this page: Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream $30.00 |
 |
15% buy Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping by the Author of Why We Buy $12.60 |
 |
14% buy Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture $26.95 |
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Help others find this product — tag it for Amazon search
No one has tagged this product for Amazon search yet. Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
|||||||||||||||||
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Customer Discussions
Beta (What's this?)
New! See all customer communities, and bookmark your communities to keep track of them.
|
This product's forum
(0 discussions)
Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Active discussions in related forums
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Product Information from the Amapedia Community
Beta (What's this?)Be the first person to add an article about this item at Amapedia.com.
› See featured Amapedia.com articles
Listmania!
|
|
So You'd Like to...
Look for Similar Items by Category
- Books > Arts & Photography
- Books > Biographies & Memoirs
- Books > History > Americas > United States
- Books > History > Europe > Austria
- Books > Professional & Technical > Architecture > Architects, A-Z
- Books > Professional & Technical > Architecture > Building Types & Styles
- Books > Professional & Technical > Architecture > Drawing & Modelling
- Books > Professional & Technical > Architecture > History & Periods
- Books > Professional & Technical > Architecture > Reference
RotoZip Makes Difficult Cuts Easy |
Best Books of 2008 |
 |
Grip It Good |
|||||||
|
Your Recent History
(What's this?)|
You have no recently viewed items or searches.
After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session. |
Continue shopping: Top Sellers
| ||||
| ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
