{"product_id":"meet-me-by-the-fountain-an-inside-history-of-the-mall-9781635576023","title":"Meet Me By The Fountain: An Inside History Of The Mall","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"globalStoreBadgePopover_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"globalStoreBadgePopover\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"globalStoreBadgePopover\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"globalStoreBadgePopover_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1635576024\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"byh5yn-1zf2du-ycg3f5-x18fl3\" data-cel-widget=\"globalStoreBadgePopover_feature_div\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eLonglisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1635576024\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"9tucwl-he0m14-irqf9a-kaiiy0\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"140\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"A smart and accessible cultural history.\"-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"A fantastic examination of what became the mall ... envision[ing] a more meaningful public afterlife for our shopping centers.\"-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVulture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA portrait--by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving--of one of America's most iconic institutions, from an author who \"might be the most influential design critic writing now\" (LARB).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFew places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce, the agora of the suburbs. In their prime, they proved a powerful draw for creative thinkers such as Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, and George Romero, who understood the mall's appeal as both critics and consumers. Yet today, amid the aftershocks of financial crises and a global pandemic, as well as the rise of online retail, the dystopian husk of an abandoned shopping center has become one of our era's defining images. Conventional wisdom holds that the mall is dead. But what was the mall, really? And have rumors of its demise been greatly exaggerated?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn her acclaimed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Design of Childhood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Alexandra Lange uncovered the histories of toys, classrooms, and playgrounds. She now turns her sharp eye to another subject we only \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethink\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e we know. She chronicles postwar architects' and merchants' invention of the mall, revealing how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. In Lange's perceptive account, the mall becomes newly strange and rich with contradiction: Malls are environments of both freedom and exclusion--of consumerism, but also of community. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMeet Me by the Fountain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a highly entertaining and evocative promenade through the mall's story of rise, fall, and ongoing reinvention, for readers of any generation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42303335497934,"sku":"9781635576023","price":29.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9781635576023_a.png?v=1702017725","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/meet-me-by-the-fountain-an-inside-history-of-the-mall-9781635576023","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}