Randhurst
Subtitle: suburban Chicago's grandest shopping center
By: Gregory T. Peerbolte
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781609491475
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Social life and customs; Randhurst Shopping Center (Chicago, Ill.); Economic conditions; Shopping centers; City planning; History; Retail trade
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Unequivocally, yes"; title: "We will have State Street in Mount Prospect"; title: "This is the first time this has happened anywhere in the country" : conceptualizing Randhurst; title: "Mr. Gruen is sort of an intra-continental guided missile" : the architect; title: "This most unusual shopping center" : a novel groundbreaking rite; title: "This is Randhurst"; title: "This well-rounded, hitch-proof program" : the Randhurst plan of 1960s; title: "From satellite to self-containment" : Randhurst and the "technoburbs" of the 1970s; title: "The only solution may be replacement" : the Rouse Corporation and Randhurst in the 1980s; title: "The 'grand experiment' in the bottom-line world of high-stakes retailing" : Randhurst in the 1990s and 2000s; title: Epilogue: "The only thing constant in the retailing industry is change. We've been through this before and we know how to handle it"; title: Appendix A: Where are they now? : a guide to selected shopping centers of Chicagoland; title: Appendix B: Randhurst directories.