Shopping Towns Europe: Commercial Collectivity and the Architecture of the Shopping Centre, 1945-1975

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).

Introduction 1. Urbanism harnessing the consumption-juggernaut: Shopping centres and urban (re-)development Shopping a l'americaine, Kenny Cupers The 1960s Shopping Centre Grid of Helsinki, Juhana Lahti Shopping Centres as Catalysts for New Multifunctional Urban Centralities, Yannick Vanhaelen and Gery Leloutre The Lijnbaan in Rotterdam, Dirk van den Heuvel Displays of Modernity, Jasna Mariotti 2. Constructing consumer-citizens: Shopping centres shaping commercial collectivity Miracles and Ruins, Citizens and Shoppers, Inderbir Singh Riar Collectivity in the Prison of Plenty, Tom Avermaete Hello Consumer!. Jennifer Mack Milton Keynes' Centre, Janina Gosseye Shopping as a Part of Political Agenda, Sanja Matijevic Barcot and Ana Grgic Unico Prezzo Italiano, Daniele Vadala 3. Between dense and tall and the low-slung (suburban) shopping mall The Creation of Civic Identity in Post-war Corporate Architecture, Evangelia Tsilika The Shopping Centre Comes to Germany, Steffen de Rudder Built for Mass Consumption, Olaf Gisbertz The Drive to Modernise, Jo Lintonbon Malls and Commercial Planning Policies in a Compact City, Nadia Fava and Manel Guardia Bassols