Harvard Design School Guide To Shopping. Project on the City 2.
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Minor nick on spine, otherwise internally sound.
What happens when shopping ceases to be a mere transaction and becomes the defining architecture of modern civilization? The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping presents a monumental, research-driven investigation into the global phenomenon of retail culture, chronicling how the logic of the mall, the department store, and the marketplace has silently colonized nearly every public and private space on earth. Compiled through the rigorous academic lens of the Harvard Design School's Project on the City, this volume details the historical evolution of shopping environments — from nineteenth-century arcades to the sprawling mega-malls of Asia — arguing that consumerism is not simply an economic activity but the foundational grammar of contemporary urban life. Edited under the intellectual aegis of the legendary architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas, this landmark work sits at the electrifying intersection of architecture, cultural theory, and urban studies, illustrating with extraordinary depth how retail spaces dictate human behavior, reshape cities, and manufacture desire on a civilizational scale. Packed with essays, data visualizations, photographs, and case studies, it presents an unflinching and brilliantly designed anatomy of a world remade in the image of consumption. For anyone who has ever walked through a shopping center and sensed something vast and unspoken at work, this volume will transform that intuition into revelation.
Author: -
Format: Paperback
Published: 2001, Taschen
Genre: Architecture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Minor nick on spine, otherwise internally sound.
What happens when shopping ceases to be a mere transaction and becomes the defining architecture of modern civilization? The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping presents a monumental, research-driven investigation into the global phenomenon of retail culture, chronicling how the logic of the mall, the department store, and the marketplace has silently colonized nearly every public and private space on earth. Compiled through the rigorous academic lens of the Harvard Design School's Project on the City, this volume details the historical evolution of shopping environments — from nineteenth-century arcades to the sprawling mega-malls of Asia — arguing that consumerism is not simply an economic activity but the foundational grammar of contemporary urban life. Edited under the intellectual aegis of the legendary architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas, this landmark work sits at the electrifying intersection of architecture, cultural theory, and urban studies, illustrating with extraordinary depth how retail spaces dictate human behavior, reshape cities, and manufacture desire on a civilizational scale. Packed with essays, data visualizations, photographs, and case studies, it presents an unflinching and brilliantly designed anatomy of a world remade in the image of consumption. For anyone who has ever walked through a shopping center and sensed something vast and unspoken at work, this volume will transform that intuition into revelation.