City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950 | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Longstreth
Publisher: The MIT Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 536
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Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 7.8 x 1.5
ISBN: 0262621258
Dewey Decimal Number: 380
EAN: 9780262621250
ASIN: 0262621258
Publication Date: June 5, 1998
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Winner of the 1997 Spiro Kostof Award given by the Society of Architectural Historians., Winner of the 1997 Lewis Mumford Prize given by Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH). and Winner of the Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum, 1998.
Winner of the Society of Architectural Historians' 1999 Spiro Kostof Award
From the 1920s to the 1950s, Los Angeles did for the shopping center what New York and Chicago had done for the skyscraper. In a single generation, the American retail center shifted from the downtown core to the regional shopping center.
Ten years in the making, City Center to Regional Mall is a sweeping yet detailed account of the development of the regional shopping center. Richard Longstreth takes a historical perspective, relating retail development to broader architectural, urban, and cultural issues. His story is far from linear; the topics he covers include the emergence of Hollywood as a downtown in miniature, experiments with the shopping center as an amenity of planned residential developments, the branch department store as a landmark of decentralization, the evolution of off-street parking facilities, and the obscure origins of the pedestrian mall as a spine for retail complexes.
Longstreth takes seriously the task of looking at retail buildings--one of the most neglected yet common building types--and the economics of real estate in the American city. He shows that Los Angeles in the period covered was a harbinger of American metropolitan trends during the second half of this century. Over 250 illustrations, culled from a wide variety of sources, constitute one of the best collections of old LA photographs published anywhere.
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 Very Informative Book about Los Angeles December 11, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you ever wanted to know about the history of Los Angeles and how it became a large metropolitian area, this is the book for you. Hundreds of pictures from the late 1800's to the 1950's makes this book a very resourceful tool.
 Well researched documentation of retailing change in L.A August 6, 1998
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The changes in retailing which have taken place in L.A. which are examined in this book have occured throughout the United States and are taking place throughout the world right noe. The population shift to the suburbs and shopping in regional malls.This has caused the value of retail space to decline in many area of America.
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