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Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that effortlessly moves across national and cultural borders in the slipstream of neo-liberal globalization, or should instead be understood as a geographically and temporally bound expression of negotiations between mall developers (representatives of a global logic of capitalist accumulation) on the one hand, and local actors (architects/governments/citizens) on the other. It explores how the shopping centre adapts to new cultural contexts, and questions whether this commercial type has the capacity to disrupt or even amend the conditions that it encounters.
Including more than 50 illustrations, this book considers the evolving architecture of shopping centres. It would be beneficial to academics and students across a number of areas such as architecture, urban design, cultural geography and sociology.
Contents
Introduction 1. Westfield's Architecture, from the Antipodes to London 2. Eastern Promises 3. The Latin American Shopping Centre: Cultural Translation, Symbolic Adaptation, and Typological Evolution of Commercial Architecture in Latin American Cities 4. El Helicoide: Venezuela's Futuristic Living Ruin 5. A Domesticated Shopping Mall in Modern Tehran: The (re)development of Ekbatan 6. Re-centring Tema: From Isotropic Commercial Centres to an Intense Infrastructure of Street-vending 7. The Boulevard Commercial Project in Manado, Indonesia: Trickled-down Globalization versus a Catalysed Super-local Coda The Travelling Type: How Buildings and Practices Migrate Across Cultures
