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Nombre: Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall - (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: Lange, Alexandra

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Biografía del autor Alexandra Lange is an architecture critic and the author of four previous books, including The Design of Childhood. Her writing has also appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, the New York Times, and T Magazine, and she has been a featured writer at Design Observer, an opinion columnist at Dezeen, and the architecture critic for Curbed. She holds a PhD in twentieth-century architecture history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and has taught design criticism there and at the School of Visual Arts. She lives in Brooklyn. "A smart and accessible cultural history."--Los Angeles Times"A fantastic examination of what became the mall ... envision[ing] a more meaningful public afterlife for our shopping centers."--VultureA portrait--by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving--of one of America's most iconic institutions, from an author who "might be the most influential design critic writing now" (LARB). Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce, the agora of the suburbs. In their prime, they proved a powerful draw for creative thinkers such as Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, and George Romero, who understood the mall's appeal as both critics and consumers. Yet today, amid the aftershocks of financial crises and a global pandemic, as well as the rise of online retail, the dystopian husk of an abandoned shopping center has become one of our era's defining images. Conventional wisdom holds that the mall is dead. But what was the mall, really? And have rumors of its demise been greatly exaggerated? In her acclaimed The Design of Childhood, Alexandra Lange uncovered the histories of toys, classrooms, and playgrounds. She now turns her sharp eye to another subject we only think we know. She chronicles postwar architects' and merchants' invention of the mall, revealing how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. In Lange's perceptive account, the mall becomes newly strange and rich with contradiction: Malls are environments of both freedom and exclusion--of consumerism, but also of community. Meet Me by the Fountain is a highly entertaining and evocative promenade through the mall's story of rise, fall, and ongoing reinvention, for readers of any generation. Críticas "A smart and accessible cultural history--outlining the social, economic and architectural forces that led to the creation of U.S. malls as we know them ... Lange doesn't have a false nostalgia for malls. Meet Me by the Fountain is frank about how they have usurped public space. But at a time when malls still serve the function of bringing us together, Lange's book is a thoughtful guide to helping them do what the best of them already have--but better." - Los Angeles Times"Artfully elucidates the 70-year history of the mall ... Lange asserts that malls, as 'blank boxes in the middle of the big empty parking lots, ' can 'serve as a land trust' for the 21st century. This sounds like a stretch, but it proves to be true. Some malls die, but most don't...Ms. Lange's elegant conclusion: The mall is dead; long live the mall." - Wall Street Journal"A fantastic examination of what became the mall ... envision[ing] a more meaningful public afterlife for our shopping centers." - Vulture"Shines in its study of malls as symbols, and drivers, of American consumerism and urban sprawl ...Though Ms Lange pays rapt attention to malls' shortcomings, her book is refreshingly optimistic." - The Economist"Reminds us that the mall has helped shape American society, and has evolved with our country since the 1950s ... [Lange] posits that there's still a place for malls in our society, as long as they adapt to better serve their communities." - The Atlantic"Fascinating cultural history." - Christian Science Monitor, 10 B

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Autor: Lange, Alexandra
-Editorial: Lange, Alexandra
-N° Paginas: 320
-Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
-Envío: Desde EE.UU.

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Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9781635576023
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defectos de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 1635576024
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta dura
Editorial: Lange, Alexandra
Titulo del libro: Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall - (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Lange, Alexandra
Fecha de publicación: 2022
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 320
ISBN-13: 9781635576023
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9781635576023