Shopping Towns Europe

Janina Gosseye is a postdoctoral research fellow at TUDelft, the Netherlands, and a member of the ATCH at the University of Queensland, Australia. She has co-edited several books, including Hot Modernism: Queensland Architecture 1945-1975 (2015), Water Urbanisms (2008), Reclaiming (the Urbanism of) Mumbai (2009) and The Specific and the Singular – Architecture in Flanders (2010). Tom Avermaete is professor of architecture at TU Delft, the Netherlands. He is the author of Another Modern: the Post-War Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods (2005), and co-editor of Colonial Modern: Aesthetics of the Past, Rebellions for the Future (2010) and Structuralism Reloaded: Rule-Based Design in Architecture and Urbanism (2011).

• 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

A methodologically refreshing intervention that nevertheless manages to be entirely part of an ongoing historiographical moment. This is very much to its credit, and the novel perspective it offers is likely to prove enlightening to historians of modern architecture, of mass consumption, and most especially of Modern Europe.