Title & Author:

Shopping towns Europe : commercial collectivity and the architecture of the shopping centre, 1945-1975 / edited by Janina Gosseye and Tom Avermaete.

Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
©2017

Description:

x, 256 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Shopping towns Europe, 1945-1975 / Janina Gosseye and Tom Avermaete -- Part 1.. Urbanism Harnessing the Consumption-Juggernaut: Shopping Centres and Urban (Re)Eevelopment: 1. Shopping à l'américaine / Kenny Cupers ; 2. The 1960s shopping centre grid of Helsinki : a framework for future development / Juhana Lahti ; 3. Shopping centres as catalysts for new multifunctional urban centralities : the case of two shopping centres around Brussels / Yannick Vanhaelen and Géry Leloutre ; 4. The Lijnbaan in Rotterdam: a sound urban form against city disruption / Dirk van den Heuvel ; 5. Displays of modernity : the urban restructuring of post-1963 Skopje / Jasna Mariotti -- Part 2. Constructing Consumer-Citizens: Shopping Centres Shaping Commercial Collectivity: 6. Miracles and fuins, citizens and shoppers : Frankfurt 1963 / Inderbir Singh Riar ; 7. Collectivity in the prison of plenty : the French commercial centres by Claude Parent, 1967-1971 / Tom Avermaete ; 8. Hello consumer!. Skärholmen Centre from the Million Programme to the mall / Jennifer Mack ; 9. Milton Keynes' Centre :the apotheosis of the British post-war consensus or, the apostle of neo-liberalism? / Janina Gosseye ; 10. Shopping as a part of a political agenda : the emergence and development of the shopping centre in socialist Croatia, 1960-1980 / Sanja Matijevic Barcot and Ana Grgic ; 11. Unico Prezzo Italiano : corporate consumption and retail architecture in post-war Italy / Daniele Vadala -- Part 3. Shifting Forms of Shopping: Between Dense and Tall and the Low-Slung (Suburban) Shopping Mall: 12. The creation of civic identity in post-war corporate architecture : Marcel Breuer's Bjerkorf in Rotterdam, 1953-1957/ Evangelia Tsilika ; 13. The shopping centre comes to Germany : Frankfurt's Main-Taurus-Zentrum at the crossroads of mass-motorization and retail economics / Steffen de Rudder ; 14. Built for mass consumption : shopping centres in West Germany's boom years / Olaf Gisbertz ; 15. The drive to modernize : remodelling Birmingham city centre, 1945-1965 / Jo Lintonbon ; 16. Malls and commercial planning policies in a compact city : the case of Barcelona / Nadia Fava and Manel Guardia.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781474267373 (hardback)
1474267378 (hardback)
(ePDF)
9781474267380
1474267386
(ePub)
9781474267403
1474267408

Subject:

Shopping centers Europe History 20th century.
Architecture and society Europe History 20th century.
Architecture et société Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE History General.
ARCHITECTURE Criticism.
ARCHITECTURE Urban & Land Use Planning.
HISTORY Modern 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Human Geography.
Architecture and society.
Civilization.
Shopping centers.
Europe Civilization 20th century.
Europe Civilisation 20e siècle.
Europe.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Gosseye, Janina, editor.
Avermaete, Tom, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297080
Call No.: BIB 243386
Status: Available