Mall maker
Subtitle: Victor Gruen, architect of an American dream
By: M. Jeffrey Hardwick.
Contributors: Gruen, Victor, 1903-
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Gruen, Victor, -- 1903-; Expatriate architects -- United States -- Biography; Architects -- Austria -- Biography; Stores, Retail -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Shopping malls -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Gruen effect; title: Escaping from Vienna to Fifth Avenue's glitter; title: Wartime planning for postwar prosperity; title: Seducing the suburban autoist; title: A "shoppers' paradise" for suburbia; title: Planning the new "suburbscape"; title: Saving our cities; title: The suburbanization of downtown; title: Conclusion: "Those bastard developments" and Gruen's legacy.