Pedestrian modern: Shopping, modern architecture and the American metropolis, 1935--1955.
- Resource Type
- Theses
- Authors
- Smiley, David
- Source
- Dissertation Abstracts International; Dissertation Abstract International; 67-09A.
- Subject
- Architecture
- Language
- English
Summary: This "pedestrian modern" joins two threads that defined shopping in architectural culture at mid-century. By its complicity with consumption and mass culture, the store was a less respected professional undertaking. At the same time, the images and connotations of walking compensated for many of the problems of modernity.