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WEEK 9. COMMERCIAL CULTURE AS URBAN LIFE
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From the panopticon world of department stores to the world-as-exhibition in the mall; the rise and demise of Main Street, shopping centers and "cities-within-cities" as American public space.
READING:
Victor Gruen, "Cityscape and Landscape," Arts & Architecture
(September 1955), rept. in Joan Ockman, ed., Architecture Culture 1943-1968
(New York, 1993), pp. 194-199
Margaret Crawford, "The World in a Shopping Mall," in Michael
Sorkin, ed., Variations on a Theme Park (New York, 1992),
pp. 5-30
Ann Bergren, "Jon Jerde and the Architecture of Pleasure," Assemblage
37 (1998), pp.8-35
Recommended:
Victor Gruen and Larry Smith, Shopping Towns U.S.A. (New York,
1960)
William R. Taylor, ed., In Pursuit of Gotham: Culture and Commerce
in New York (NY,1992)
Richard Longstreth, Main Street (Washington, l987)
-------, From City Center to Regional MallÉ in Los Angeles, 1920-1950
(Cambridge, l997)
Chris Wilson, The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition
(Albuqurque,1997)
Karel Ann Marling, ed., Designing DisneyŐs Theme Parks (New York
and Paris, 1997)
Mark Gottdiener, et.al, Las Vegas:The Social Production of an All-American
City (Boston,1999)
John Hannigan, Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern
Metropolis (London, 1998)
Roger L. Kemp, ed., Main Street Renewal (Jefferson, N.C., 2000)
QUESTIONS:
To Be Announced.