Meet Me by the Fountain
An Inside History of the Mall
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
Format: Book
Description: 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
An entertaining and evocative stroll through the rise, fall, and ongoing reinvention of malls, which proved to be a powerful draw for creative thinkers including Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, and George Romero, chronicles how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in cultural ascent.
Contents:
Introduction: Why we go to the mall -- Every day will be a perfect shopping day -- The garden -- The mall and the public -- Make shopping beside the point -- Whose mall is it anyway? -- Dawn of the Dead mall -- The postapocalyptic mall -- Conclusion: The mall abroad.
Subjects:
Shopping malls -- United States -- History.
Shopping centers -- United States -- History.
Shopping malls -- Social aspects.
Shopping malls -- United States -- History.
Shopping centers -- United States -- History.
Shopping malls -- Social aspects.
ISBN:
9781635576023
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SOCIAL SCI Lan | Sandhills Indoors | First Level Display, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-297) and index.