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Mall maker : Victor Gruen, architect of an American dream by M. Jeffrey Hardwick; Victor Gruen is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>The shopping mall is both the most visible and the most contentious symbol of American prosperity. Despite their convenience, malls are routinely criticized for representing much that is wrong in America--sprawl, conspicuous consumption, the loss of regional character, and the decline of Mom and Pop stores. So ubiquitous are malls that most people would be suprised to learn that they are the brainchild of a single person, architect Victor Gruen.</p> <p>An immigrant from Austria who fled the N
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- Author
- M. Jeffrey Hardwick; Victor Gruen
- Publisher
- University Of Pennsylvania Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812221107
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Art, History, Architecture
- Rating
- 3 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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