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Centers for the urban environment;: Survival of the cities

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Gruen, Victor

Architecture

Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc.

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THE HEART OF OUR CITIES, THE URBAN CRISES: DIAGNOSIS AND CURE.

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Shopping Towns USA: the Planning of Shopping Centers

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Shopping Town: Designing the City in Suburban America

Victor Gruen was one of the twentieth century’s most influential architects and is regarded as the father of the U.S. shopping mall. In spring 1979, less than a year before his death, he began reconstructing his life story. Now available in English for the first time, Shopping Town is the long overdue account of a man whose work fundamentally altered the course of city development. Shopping Town opens in Vienna in 1938 with the Anschluss—the turning point in Gruen’s life—as he narrowly escaped the Nazi regime. A few years later, in the suburbs of postwar America, the Jewish refugee sought to reproduce the vitality of Vienna’s city center and invented the commercial apparatus now known as the shopping mall. Gruen’s Southdale Mall in Edina, Minnesota, was the first fully enclosed shopping center in America. He then translated the concept to economically neglected city centers, setting the path for pedestrian zones and fighting passionately for an urban ideal without compromise. Highlighting Gruen’s sense of humor as well as reflections on the complex forces that sustained the postwar transformation of American cities, Shopping Town embeds Gruen’s experiences and perspectives in a wider social and political context while helping us understand his problematic place in American architectural culture. With afterwords by his son and daughter, Shopping Town closes with Anette Baldauf’s richly insightful essay on the legacy of Victor Gruen.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Victor Gruen was one of the twentieth century’s most influential architects and is regarded as the father of the U.S. shopping mall. In spring 1979, less than a year before his death, he began reconstructing his life story. Now available in English for the first time, Shopping Town is the long overdue account of a man whose work fundamentally altered the course of city development. 
Shopping Town opens in Vienna in 1938 with the Anschluss—the turning point in Gruen’s life—as he narrowly escaped the Nazi regime. A few years later, in the suburbs of postwar America, the Jewish refugee sought to reproduce the vitality of Vienna’s city center and invented the commercial apparatus now known as the shopping mall. Gruen’s Southdale Mall in Edina, Minnesota, was the first fully enclosed shopping center in America. He then translated the concept to economically neglected city centers, setting the path for pedestrian zones and fighting passionately for an urban ideal without compromise. 
Highlighting Gruen’s sense of humor as well as reflections on the complex forces that sustained the postwar transformation of American cities, Shopping Town embeds Gruen’s experiences and perspectives in a wider social and political context while helping us understand his problematic place in American architectural culture. With afterwords by his son and daughter, Shopping Town closes with Anette Baldauf’s richly insightful essay on the legacy of Victor Gruen.

Victor Gruen (1903-1980) zahlt zu den einflussreichsten Architekten des 20. Jahrhunderts: Beim Versuch, in der US-amerikanischen Vorstadt seine Geburtsstadt Wien zu rekonstruieren, erfand der Emigrant judischer Herkunft die Shopping Mall. "Ich weigere mich, Alimente fur diese Bastardprojekte zu bezahlen, sie haben unsere Stadte zerstort", schrieb Gruen spater angesichts der Mallisierung der Stadte und setzte sich fur Fussgangerzonen und das Konzept der zellularen Stadt ein. Zuruck in Europa warnte er vor dem Modell Amerika und forderte ein Verstandnis von Architektur als verantwortungsbewusste Umweltgestaltung. Die Autobiografie rekonstruiert ein Jahrhundert Stadtentwicklung und bezeugt eine visionare Kraft, die, beflugelt von Gesellschaftskritik ebenso wie Gigantomanie, das Urbane kompromisslos verteidigt. Mit Beitragen von Peggy Gruen und Michael Gruen.

Shopping Town: Memoiren Eines Stadtplaners (1903-1980) (German Edition)

Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht

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Centers for the urban environment;: Survival of the cities

THE HEART OF OUR CITIES, THE URBAN CRISES: DIAGNOSIS AND CURE.

Shopping Towns USA: the Planning of Shopping Centers

Shopping Towns USA: the Planning of Shopping Centers

Shopping Town: Designing the City in Suburban America

Shopping Town: Designing the City in Suburban America

Shopping Town: Memoiren Eines Stadtplaners (1903-1980) (German Edition)