Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925-1956

In Pedestrian Modern, David Smiley reveals how the design for places of consumption--stores and shopping centers--informed emerging modernist tenets. Tracing the history of architecture's relationship with retail environments during a time of significant transformation in urban centers and in open suburban landscapes, Pedestrian Modern expands and qualifies the making of American modernism.

Author(s): David J. Smiley
Published: 2013
Categories: ARCHITECTURE