Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925–1956 - David Smiley - Books - University of Minnesota Press - 9780816679300 - July 10, 2013
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Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925–1956


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In Pedestrian Modern, David Smiley reveals how the design for places of consumption-stores and shopping centers-informed emerging modernist tenets. Tracing the history of architecture's relationship with retail environments during a time of significant transformation in urban centers and in open suburban landscapes, Pedestrian Modern expands and qualifies the making of American modernism.


352 pages, 133 black & white illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 10, 2013
ISBN13 9780816679300
Publishers University of Minnesota Press
Pages 352
Dimensions 180 × 254 × 17 mm   ·   916 g

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