City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950

by Richard Longstreth and Richard W. Longstreth

Book Overview

Winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize for Best Book Published in American City & Regional Planning History 1995-1997. From the 1920s to the 1950s, Los Angeles did for the shopping center what New York and Chicago had done for the skyscraper. In a single generation, the American retail center shifted from the downtown core to the regional shopping center. This rise of the regional shopping center is one of the most significant changes to the American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262621258
• ISBN13: 9780262621250
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.8" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher