Urban Department Store in America, 1850–1930
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architectural historiography
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Artist’s Model
Author_Louisa Iarocci
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Bird's Eye
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Commercial Building
Commercial Building Types
Commercial Palace
commercial urbanism
consumer culture studies
counter
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Dry Goods
Early Department Store
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Grand Bazaar
Grand Depot
High Street Market
historical analysis of department stores
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Jordan Marsh
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Mercantile House
Modern Department Store
nineteenth-century retail
retail architecture
Retail Building
sales
Sales Counter
Sales Floor
Seattle Public Library
Shop Girl
Show Window
spatial theory
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Street View
Street Wall
Titan City
Urban Department Store
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Wanamaker Store
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781409447436
- Weight: 725g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the late nineteenth century, the urban department store arose as a built artifact and as a social institution in the United States. While the physical building type is the foundation of this comprehensive architectural study, Louisa Iarocci reaches beyond the analysis of the bricks and mortar to reconsider how the ’spaces of selling’ were culturally-produced spaces, as well as the product of interrelated economic, social, technological and aesthetic forces. The agenda of the book is three-fold; to address the lack of a comprehensive architectural study of the nineteenth century department store in the United States; to expand the analysis of the commercial city as a built and represented entity; and to continue recent scholarly efforts that seek to understand commercial space as a historically specific and a conceptually perceived construct. The Urban Department Store in America, 1850-1930 acts as a corrective to a current imbalance in the historiography of this retailing institution that tends to privilege its role as an autonomous ’modern’ building type. Instead, Iarocci documents the development of the department store as an urban institution that grew out of the built space of the city and the lived spaces of its occupants.
Louisa Iarocci is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
