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Mall City
Author | : Stefan Al |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780824855444 |
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Hong Kong is the twenty-first-century paradigmatic capital of consumerism. Of all places, it has the densest and tallest concentration of malls, reaching tens of stories. Hong Kong’s malls are also the most visited, sandwiched between subways and skyscrapers. These mall complexes have become cities in and of themselves, accommodating tens of thousands of people who live, work, and play within a single structure. Mall City features Hong Kong as a unique rendering of an advanced consumer society. Retail space has come a long way since the nineteenth-century covered passages of Paris, which once awed the bourgeoisie with glass roofs and gaslights. It has morphed from the arcade to the department store, and from the mall into the “mall city”—where “expresscalators” crisscross mesmerizing atriums. Highlighting the effects of this development in Hong Kong, this book raises questions about architecture, city planning, culture, and urban life.
Mall City
Author | : Stefan Al |
Publsiher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2016-07-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9789888208968 |
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Hong Kong is the twenty-first-century paradigmatic capital of consumerism. Of all places, it has the densest and tallest concentration of malls, reaching tens of stories. Hong Kong’s malls are also the most visited, sandwiched between subways and skyscrapers. These mall complexes have become cities in and of themselves, accommodating tens of thousands of people who live, work, and play within a single structure. Mall City features Hong Kong as a unique rendering of an advanced consumer society. Retail space has come a long way since the nineteenth-century covered passages of Paris, which once awed the bourgeoisie with glass roofs and gaslights. It has morphed from the arcade to the department store, and from the mall into the “mall city”—where “expresscalators” crisscross mesmerizing atriums. Highlighting the effects of this development in Hong Kong, this book raises questions about architecture, city planning, culture, and urban life. “At the nexus of density, humidity, topography, and prosperity, Hong Kong has spawned more malls per square mile than any place on earth. This fantastic book decodes and graphically depicts an environment both apart and ubiquitous, a convulsive form of public space in a liquid territory where intensely contested politics, commerce, and sociability weirdly merge in a city like no other.” —Michael Sorkin, distinguished professor of architecture of the City University of New York “Hong Kong may be packed with the most shopping malls per square kilometer in the world, but Mall City is packed with the most drawings, information, and fascinating mall facts. The book dissects, categorizes, and displays all kinds of intriguing data on the city-state’s shopping complexes and culture. Its richly layered analysis perfectly matches Hong Kong’s multi-story machines for consumption.” —Clifford Pearson, director of USC American Academy in China “Stefan Al has again produced a book that provides a sharp lens on radically new urban forms that are emerging in China. While his previous books, Villages in the City andFactory Towns of South China introduced the site of production and housing for the migrant labor of the Pearl River Delta, here we enter the phantasmagoria of the enormous interconnected free-trade shopping zone of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Mall City dissects the basic unit of this climate-controlled consumer landscape—the mall. This beautifully illustrated book is a must-read for those who wish to understand the future of public space in high-density cities.” —Brian McGrath, professor of urban design and dean of constructed environments, Parsons School of Design
Call of the Mall
Author | : Paco Underhill |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2005-01-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0743235924 |
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Profiling malls as intersections of American consumer marketing, the media, and street culture, an examination of malls as reflections of commercial and social culture considers what malls mean to ordinary people.
North Haven Mall Development Permit
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NWU:35556025403080 |
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All the World s a Mall
Author | : Rinny Gremaud |
Publsiher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2023-12-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781772127201 |
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All the World’s a Mall details a whirlwind world tour in five stops: Edmonton, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, and Casablanca, chosen because they are home to some of the biggest malls on the planet. Cities within cities, these malls are wonderlands where visitors come from afar to: walk, eat, sleep, watch, swim, ride, photograph, and, of course, shop. With a curious, critical, and sometimes ironic eye, Swiss journalist Rinny Gremaud recounts her travels to and through these monstrous spaces of excess, relaying her conversations with patrons, employees, and executives, and contemplating the effects of globalized commerce. Informative and thoughtful, exhilarating and exhausting, jet-lagged and always air conditioned, All the World’s a Mall is a truly memorable, hallucinatory adventure.
The Changing Consumer Cultures of Modern Egypt
Author | : Mona Abaza |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2006-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789047410478 |
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In a collage of images the author attempts to convey the transformation of consumer culture and how it is related to the urban reshaping of the city of Cairo to meet with the demands of globalisation. Evidently Cairo ́s urban reshaping is taking place by pushing away the unwanted slums residents, which constitute the majority of the city ́s population.
Cultural Landscape Report Independence Mall
Author | : Deirdre Gibson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : PURD:32754064459815 |
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Sights of London and Metropolitan handbook
Author | : Henry Herbert (and co.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:590479971 |
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