Title:
Harvard Design School guide to shopping
Author:
Chung, Chuihua Judy.
ISBN:
9783822860472
Publication Information:
Köln ; New York : Taschen, 2001.
Physical Description:
800 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 25 cm.
Series:
Project on the city ; 2
Project on the city ; 2.
General Note:
"Project on the City, director: Rem Koolhaas, coordinator: Jeffrey Inaba"--Page 24.
"Project on the City ... is an ongoing research effort that examines the effects of modernization on the urban condition"--Page 3 of cover.
Contents:
Evolution: history -- Scope: statistics -- Crisis: the dilemma -- Air conditioning: life support for the consumer / ... And then there was shopping: the last remaining form of public life / Bit structures: the unbearable lightness of network economy / Brand zone: environment with added value / Captive: airmall / City of shopping / Coopetition: Singapore as a shopping mall / Crystal Palace: from greenhouse to mall / Depato: the Japanese department store / Divine economy: Church reformation / Ecologically correct: conserve and spend / Ecology: shopping is ecology / Escalator: mechanism of smoothness / E-urope: virtualizing European shopping / Good intentions: Jane Jacobs and after / Gruen urbanism: mall as urbanism / Jerde transfer: spatial assault / Junkspace: the debris of modernization / Legislated transactions: "urban design as public policy" / Lippo way: gypsy empire / Mall: requiem for a type / Mobility: bringing the consumer to shopping / Mobilize: shopping and the military / Ms. Consumer: the making of public space / Next big thing: survival of the fittest / Nikevolution: strategies of a brand / Psychogramming: predicting the consumer / Real(i)ty: "selling cities like soap" / Redemption: synchroncity revisited / Relearning from Las Vegas: then and now / Replascape: mechanized nature / Resistence: Europe vs. shopping / Scale: a portfolio / Section in Asia: a portfolio / Separated at birth: Frank Gehry vs. Jon Jerde / Surburban model: "downtown needs a lesson from the suburbs" / Thou shalt not shop: devotion or shopping? / Three-ring circus: the double life of the shopping architect / Tokyo metabolism: the Japanese convenience store / Ulterior spaces: invisible motives
Abstract:
A series of essays, statistical analyses and reflection on social and technological factors that have influenced the way shopping has refashioned the city.