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PURCHASE ON GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEBq0kCSOM Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall Authored by Alexandra Lange Narrated by Mikhaila Aaseng 0:00 Intro 0:03 Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall 0:36 Introduction: Why We Go to the Mall 15:03 Outro #alexandralange #meetmebythefountainaninsidehistoryofthemall — GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS Find your next great read with Google Play Books. Google Play Books is a global digital bookstore offering ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Discover book recommendations personalized just for you. Get the iOS app: https://goo.gle/books-ios Get the Android app: https://goo.gle/books-android — BOOK DESCRIPTION Bloomsbury presents Meet Me by the Fountain by Alexandra Lange, read by Mikhaila Aaseng. Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards “A smart and accessible cultural history.” —Los Angeles Times “A fantastic examination of what became the mall . . . envision[ing] a more meaningful public afterlife for our shopping centers.”—Vulture A 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). Few 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? In her acclaimed The Design of Childhood, Alexandra Lange uncovered the histories of toys, classrooms, and playgrounds. She now turns her sharp eye to another subject we only think 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. Meet Me by the Fountain is a highly entertaining and evocative promenade through the mall’s story of rise, fall, and ongoing reinvention, for readers of any generation. — ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alexandra Lange is an architecture critic and the author of four previous books, including The Design of Childhood. Her writing has also appeared in publications such as the New Yorker, New York Magazine, the New York Times, T Magazine, and CityLab, and she was previously the architecture critic for Curbed. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and has taught design criticism there and at the School of Visual Arts. She lives in Brooklyn. — AUDIOBOOK DETAILS Purchase on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEBq0kCSOM Language: English Publisher: Bloomsbury US Audio Published on: June 14, 2022 ISBN: 9781639730698 Duration: 9 hr, 49 min Genres: Architecture / History / Contemporary (1945-), Art / History / General, Business & Economics / Economic History, History / Social History