"HISTORY United States 20th Century." . . "Commercial buildings History 20th century United States." . . "ARCHITECTURE History General." . . "Architecture et société États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle." . . "moderne arkitektur" . . "1900 - 1999" . . "Immeubles commerciaux États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle." . . "Electronic books." . . "Electronic books" . . . "Architecture and society United States History 20th century." . . "Architecture and society" . . "ARCHITECTURE Urban & Land Use Planning." . . "Warenhaus." . . "Consommateurs Comportement États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle." . . . . . . . "Pedestrian modern : shopping and american architecture, 1925-1956" . "Electronic books" . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . "History"@en . . "History" . . . . . . "Pedestrian modern shopping and American architecture, 1925-1956" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Pedestrian Modern Shopping and American Architecture, 1925-1956"@en . . . . . . . "Pedestrian modern : shopping and American architecture, 1925 - 1956" . . . . . . . . . "\"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.\"--" . "Pedestrian modern : shopping and American architecture, 1925-1956" . "Pedestrian Modern : Shopping and American Architecture, 1925-1956" . . . . . "Commercial buildings" . . "Consumer behavior United States History 20th century." . . "Architecture and society History 20th century United States." . . "Architektur." . . "Geschichte 1925-1956." . . "Galeries marchandes États-Unis 20e siècle." . . "Consumer behavior History 20th century United States." . . "forbrugersamfundet" . . "modernisme" . . "byplanlægning" . . "Zones piétonnières États-Unis 20e siècle." . . "forretningskvarterer" . . "USA." . . "USA" . "Consumer behavior" . . "Commercial buildings United States History 20th century." . . "Einkaufszentrum." . . "ARCHITECTURE Buildings Public, Commercial & Industrial." . . "forretningsgader" . . "inkøbscentre" . . "gågader" . . "United States" . . "Magasins États-Unis 20e siècle." . .