The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941

Description

Product Description:
Richard Longstreth is one of the few historians to focus on ordinary commercial buildings--buildings usually associated with commercial builders and real estate developers rather than architects and thus generally overlooked by historians of "high" architecture. Here Longstreth explores the early development of two kinds of retail space that have become ubiquitous in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. One, external, is devoted to the circulation and parking of automobiles on retail premises. Longstreth analyzes the origins of this development in the 1910s and 1920s, with the super service station and then the drive-in market. The other type of space, internal, was introduced soon thereafter with the single-story supermarket. The most innovative aspect of the supermarket was how its interior was designed for high-volume turnover of a large selection of goods with a minimum of staff assistance. Longstreth focuses on Los Angeles, the principal center for the development of both kinds of space, during the period from the mid-1910s to the early 1940s. This richly illustrated study integrates architectural, cultural, economic, and urban factors to describe the evolution of retailing and how it has affected the urban landscape.

Disclaimer:
Contents of this page are indexed from the Internet. All actions are under your responsability. Email us to report illegal contents or external links and we'll remove them immediately.

Please check the description for download links if any or do a search to find alternative books.

Can't Download?
Please search mirrors if you can't find download links for "The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941" in "Description" and someone else may update the links. Check the comments when back to find any updates.

Search Mirrors
Maybe some mirror pages will be helpful, search this book at top of this page or click here to find more info.

1. Ebooks list page : 3244
2. Margaret Leslie Davis - The Culture Broker: Franklin D. Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles
3. The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space
4. Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles
5. Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department
6. Space Planning for Commercial and Residential Interiors
7. Let's Visit the Supermarket
8. Tim Boyce, Cathy Lake - The Commercial Manager: The Complete Handbook for Commercial Directors and Managers
9. Commercial and Pre-Commercial Cell Detection Technologies for Defence against Bioterror:Technology, Market and Society
10. How to Steal Food from the Supermarket
11. Fundamentals of Space Biology: Research on Cells, Animals, and Plants in Space (Space Technology Library)
12. Fundamentals of Space Biology: Research on Cells, Animals, and Plants in Space (Space Technology Lib
13. Science, Society, and the Supermarket: The Opportunities and Challenges of Nutrigenomics
14. The GDA Diet: Shop Yourself Thin - Your Supermarket Weight Loss Guide
15. Otto Vilnauer: Photodiary 1941-1943 / Вильнауэр Отто: Фотодневник 1941-1943
16. Handbook of Space Technology (Aerospace Series (PEP)) Utilization of Space-chapter of the book Handbook of Space Technology