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Pedestrian ModernShopping and American Architecture, 1925-1956$
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David Smiley

Print publication date: 2013

Print ISBN-13: 9780816679294

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679294.001.0001

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Machines for Selling

Machines for Selling

Chapter:
(p.51) Two Machines for Selling
Source:
Pedestrian Modern
Author(s):

David Smiley

Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816679294.003.0003

In the late 1930s, four architects (Victor Gruen, Morris Ketchum, Morris Lapidus and Kenneth Welch) focused more intensively on store work as part of a modernist undertaking – a modernism that combined rationalism, material studies, pragmatism and theatricality.

Keywords:   modernism, modern architecture, store design, shopping centers, shopping malls, shopping districts, suburbanization, suburbs, pedestrianization, walkable city

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