Main entry:

Gruen, Victor, 1903-1980, author.

Title & Author:

Shopping town : designing the city in suburban America / Victor Gruen ; edited and translated by Anette Baldauf.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

Description:

xiv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
"A different version of Shopping Town appeared in German as Shopping Town: Memoiren eines Stadtplaners (1903/1980) by Victor Gruen, edited by Anette Baldauf, with essays in English by Michael Gruen and Peggy Gruen (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2014)."
Translated from the German.
"A different version of Shopping Town appeared in German as Shopping Town: Memoiren eines Stadtplaners (1903/1980) by Victor Gruen, edited by Anette Baldauf, with essays in English by Michael Gruen and Peggy Gruen (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2014)"--Verso of title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: Why Victor Gruen? / Anette Baldauf -- Vienna 1938 -- Flashback -- Discovering America -- The Big Breakthrough -- Development of the Storm -- Architectura -- Environmental Planning.

Summary:

"Victor Gruen was one of the twentieth century's most influential architects and is regarded as the father of the U.S. shopping mall. In spring 1979, less than a year before his death, he began reconstructing his life story. Now available in English for the first time, Shopping Town is the long overdue account of a man whose work fundamentally altered the course of city development. Shopping Town opens in Vienna in 1938 with the Anschluss--the turning point in Gruen's life--as he narrowly escaped the Nazi regime. A few years later, in the suburbs of postwar America, the Jewish refugee sought to reproduce the vitality of Vienna's city center and invented the commercial apparatus now known as the shopping mall. Gruen's Southdale Mall in Edina, Minnesota, was the first fully enclosed shopping center in America. He then translated the concept to economically neglected city centers, setting the path for pedestrian zones and fighting passionately for an urban ideal without compromise. Highlighting Gruen's sense of humor as well as reflections on the complex forces that sustained the postwar transformation of American cities, Shopping Town embeds Gruen's experiences and perspectives in a wider social and political context while helping us understand his problematic place in American architectural culture. With afterwords by his son and daughter, Shopping Town closes with Anette Baldauf's richly insightful essay on the legacy of Victor Gruen"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781517902094 hardcover
1517902096 hardcover
9781517902100 paperback :
151790210X paperback

Subject:

Gruen, Victor, 1903-1980.
Expatriate architects United States Biography.
Architects Austria Biography.
Stores, Retail United States History 20th century.
Shopping malls United States History 20th century.
City planners Austria Biography.
Architectes expatriés États-Unis Biographies.
Architectes Autriche Biographies.
Magasins États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Galeries marchandes États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Urbanistes Autriche Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Artists, Architects, Photographers.
ARCHITECTURE Individual Architects & Firms General.
HISTORY United States State & Local Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Architects.
City planners.
Expatriate architects.
Shopping malls.
Stores, Retail.
Shopping centres United States Design and construction
Austria.
United States.

Form/genre:

Autobiography
Biography
History.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.

Added entries:

Baldauf, Anette, editor, translator.
Baldauf, Anette editor, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295086
Call No.: BIB 241037
Status: Available