000719805 000__ 03786cam\a2200433\i\4500 000719805 001__ 719805 000719805 005__ 20210515103057.0 000719805 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000719805 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000719805 008__ 130128t20132013mnua\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000719805 020__ $$z9780816679294$$qhardcover 000719805 020__ $$z9780816679300 000719805 020__ $$a9780816684212$$qelectronic book 000719805 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10762706 000719805 035__ $$a(OCoLC)858230505 000719805 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cCaPaEBR 000719805 043__ $$an-us--- 000719805 05014 $$aNA6212$$b.S65 2013eb 000719805 08204 $$a725/.2109730904$$223 000719805 1001_ $$aSmiley, David J.,$$d1958- 000719805 24510 $$aPedestrian modern$$h[electronic resource] :$$bshopping and American architecture, 1925-1956 /$$cDavid Smiley. 000719805 264_1 $$aMinneapolis :$$bUniversity of Minnesota Press,$$c[2013] 000719805 264_4 $$c©2013 000719805 300__ $$a1 online resource (372 pages) :$$billustrations 000719805 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000719805 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000719805 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000719805 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000719805 5058_ $$aMachine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Centers and Peripheries -- 1. The Store Problem -- 2. Machines for Selling -- 3. "Park and Shop" -- 4. Pedestrianization Takes Command -- 5. The Cold War Pedestrian -- 6. The Language of Modern Shopping -- Conclusion: Pedestrian Modern Futures -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. 000719805 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000719805 520__ $$a" Too close to the wiles and calculations of consumption, stores and shopping centers are generally relegated to secondary, pedestrian status in the history of architecture. And yet, throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century, stores and shopping centers were an important locus of modernist architectural thought and practice. Under the mantle of modernism, the merchandising problems and possibilities of main streets, cities, and suburbs became legitimate--if also conflicted--responsibilities of the architectural profession. In Pedestrian Modern, David Smiley reveals how the design for places of consumption informed emerging modernist tenets. The architect was viewed as a coordinator and a site planner--modernist tropes particularly well suited to merchandising. Smiley follows this development from the twenties and thirties, when glass and transparency were equated with modernist rationality; to the forties, when cities and congestion presented considerable hurdles for shopping district design and, at the same time, when modern concerns about the pedestrian deeply affected city and neighborhood planning; to the early fifties, when both urban shopping districts and suburban shopping centers became large-scale modernist undertakings. Although interpreting the tools and principles of modernism, designs for shopping never quite shed the specter of consumption. Tracing the history of architecture's relationship with retail environments during a time of significant transformation in urban centers and in open suburban landscapes, Smiley expands and qualifies the making of American modernism. "--$$cProvided by publisher. 000719805 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000719805 650_0 $$aCommercial buildings$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century. 000719805 650_0 $$aArchitecture and society$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century. 000719805 650_0 $$aConsumer behavior$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century. 000719805 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aSmiley, David J.$$tPedestrian modern.$$dMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]$$z9780816679300$$w(DLC) 2013003504 000719805 852__ $$bebk 000719805 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/usiricelib/Doc?id=10762706$$zOnline Access 000719805 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:719805$$pGLOBAL_SET 000719805 980__ $$aEBOOK 000719805 980__ $$aBIB 000719805 982__ $$aEbook 000719805 983__ $$aOnline