Shopping Towns Europe

Tom Avermaete is Professor at ETH Zurich, where he holds the Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design. Avermaete has a special research interest in the post-war public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts. He is the author of Another Modern: The Post-War Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods (2005) and Casablanca, Chandigarh: A Report on Modernization (2014, with Maristella Casciato). Avermaete has also edited numerous books, including Acculturating the Shopping Centre(2018, with Janina Gosseye), and is a member of the editorial team of OASE Architectural Journal and the advisory board of the Architectural Theory Review, among others.Janina Gosseye is a Senior Research Associate at ETH Zurich and an Honorary Senior Fellow of the University of Queensland School of Architecture. Her research is situated at the nexus of architectural theory, urban planning and social and political history. Gosseye has edited and authored several books, including Acculturating the Shopping Centre(2018, with Tom Avermaete) and Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research (2019, with Naomi Stead and Deborah van der Plaat). Her research has also been published in leading journals, including the Journal of Architecture, the Journal of Urban History and Planning Perspectives. In 2018, she was made an Honorary Member of the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA).

• Introduction1. Urbanism harnessing the consumption-juggernaut: Shopping centres and urban (re-)development Shopping à l’américaine, Kenny CupersThe 1960s Shopping Centre Grid of Helsinki, Juhana LahtiShopping Centres as Catalysts for New Multifunctional Urban Centralities, Yannick Vanhaelen and Géry LeloutreThe Lijnbaan in Rotterdam, Dirk van den HeuvelDisplays of Modernity, Jasna Mariotti2. Constructing consumer-citizens: Shopping centres shaping commercial collectivityMiracles and Ruins, Citizens and Shoppers, Inderbir Singh RiarCollectivity in the Prison of Plenty, Tom AvermaeteHello Consumer!. Jennifer MackMilton Keynes’ Centre, Janina GosseyeShopping as a Part of Political Agenda, Sanja Matijevic Barcot and Ana GrgicUnico Prezzo Italiano, Daniele Vadala3. Between dense and tall and the low-slung (suburban) shopping mallThe Creation of Civic Identity in Post-war Corporate Architecture, Evangelia TsilikaThe Shopping Centre Comes to Germany, Steffen de RudderBuilt for Mass Consumption, Olaf GisbertzThe Drive to Modernise, Jo LintonbonMalls and Commercial Planning Policies in a Compact City, Nadia Fava and Manel Guardia Bassols

[The] perspective [Shopping Towns Europe] offers is likely to prove enlightening to historians of modern architecture, of mass consumption, and most especially of Modern Europe.