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Author Hardwick, M. Jeffrey.

Title Mall maker : Victor Gruen, architect of an American dream / M. Jeffrey Hardwick.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2004]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  725.21 G886M    Check Shelf
Description 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-268) and index.
Contents The Gruen effect -- Escaping from Vienna to Fifth Avenue -- How Main Street stole Fifth Avenue's glitter -- Wartime planning for postwar prosperity -- Seducing the suburban autoist -- A "shoppers' paradise" for suburbia -- Planning the new "suburbscape" -- Saving our cities -- The suburbanization of downtown.
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.
Added Author Gruen, Victor, 1903-1980.
ISBN 0812237625 cloth alkaline paper
9780812237627 cloth alkaline paper
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