City center to regional mall : architecture, the automobile, and retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950

Resource Information

The work City center to regional mall : architecture, the automobile, and retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

City center to regional mall : architecture, the automobile, and retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950

Title remainder

architecture, the automobile, and retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950

Statement of responsibility

Richard Longstreth

Creator

• Longstreth, Richard W

Subject

• Winkelcentra
• Sociologie urbaine -- États-Unis | Los Angeles (Ca.)
• Vie urbaine -- Californie | Los Angeles, Agglomération de -- Histoire
• Vie urbaine -- États-Unis | Los Angeles (Ca.)
• Stedelijke ontwikkeling
• Auto's
• Centres villes -- Californie | Los Angeles, Agglomération de -- Histoire
• City and town life -- California | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area -- History
• Stadscultuur
• Automobile -- Aspect social -- Etats-Unis | Los Angeles (Ca.)
• Commerce de détail -- Californie | Los Angeles, Agglomération de -- Histoire
• Automobiles -- Social aspects -- California | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area -- History
• Stedelijke economie
• Central business districts -- California | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area -- History
• Automobiles -- Aspect social -- Californie | Los Angeles, Agglomération de -- Histoire
• Retail trade -- California | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area -- History
• Bouwkunst

Language

eng

Summary

"Ten years in the making, City Center to Regional Mall is a sweeping yet detailed account of the development of the regional shopping center. Richard Longstreth takes a historical perspective, relating retail development to broader architectural, urban, and cultural issues. His story is far from linear; the topics he covers include the emergence of Hollywood as a downtown in miniature, experiments with the shopping center as an amenity of planned residential developments, the branch department store as a landmark of decentralization, the evolution of off-street parking facilities, and the obscure origins of the pedestrian mall as a spine for retail complexes." "Longstreth takes seriously the task of looking at retail buildings - one of the most neglected yet common of building types - and at the economics of real estate in the American city. He shows that Los Angeles in the period covered was a harbinger of American metropolitan trends during the second half of this century. Over 250 illustrations, culled from a wide variety of sources, constitute one of the best collections of old LA photographs published anywhere."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

381.1/0973

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

HF5429.5.L7

LC item number

L66 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography