City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950
City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950
Winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize for Best Book Published in American City & Regional Planning History 1995-1997From 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. This rise of the regional shopping center is one of the most significant changes to the American city in the twentieth century, and no other American city has done as much as Los Angeles to spur that change.Ten years in the making, City Center to Regional Mall is a sweeping yet
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Very Informative Book about Los Angeles,
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.
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|Well researched documentation of retailing change in L.A,
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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