Shopping Town

Memoiren eines Stadtplaners (1903-1980)

By (author) Victor Gruen Edited by Anette Baldauf

Book cover: Shopping Town

Extent: 408 pages

Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Wien

Subjects: Architecture

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(July 2014)

ISBN: 9783205795421

6.5 x 9.49 inches

Price: $74.00

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Victor Gruen (1903-1980) zahlt zu den einflussreichsten Architekten des 20. Jahrhunderts: Beim Versuch, in der US-amerikanischen Vorstadt seine Geburtsstadt Wien zu rekonstruieren, erfand der Emigrant judischer Herkunft die Shopping Mall. “Ich weigere mich, Alimente fur diese Bastardprojekte zu bezahlen, sie haben unsere Stadte zerstort”, schrieb Gruen spater angesichts der Mallisierung der Stadte und setzte sich fur Fussgangerzonen und das Konzept der zellularen Stadt ein. Zuruck in Europa warnte er vor dem Modell Amerika und forderte ein Verstandnis von Architektur als verantwortungsbewusste Umweltgestaltung. Die Autobiografie rekonstruiert ein Jahrhundert Stadtentwicklung und bezeugt eine visionare Kraft, die, beflugelt von Gesellschaftskritik ebenso wie Gigantomanie, das Urbane kompromisslos verteidigt. Mit Beitragen von Peggy Gruen und Michael Gruen.

Victor Gruen (1903-1980), geboren als Viktor David Grünbaum in Wien, zählt zu den einflussreichsten Architekten und Stadtplanern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er gilt als Erfinder der Shopping Mall, Wegbereiter der Fußgängerzone und engagierter Verfechter einer verantwortungsbewussten Umweltgestaltung.

  • By (author) Victor Gruen
  • Edited by Anette Baldauf

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