Richard W. Longstreth Books
City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950
Ten years in the making, City Center to Regional Mall is a sweeping yet detailed account of the development of the regional shopping center. Richard Longstreth takes a historical perspective, relat...
Read MoreThe Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941
Richard Longstreth is one of the few architectural historians to focus on ordinary commercial buildings - buildings usually associated with commercial builders and real estate developers rather tha...
Read MoreThe Anaesthetics of Architecture
By Neil Leach
In this short, intentionally polemical book, Neil Leach draws on the ideas of philosophers and cultural theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard to develop a novel and highly incisive...
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