Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall - Alexandra Lange - Alexandra Lange

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Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards A smart and accessible cultural history.- Los Angeles Times A portrait--by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving--of one of America\'s most iconic institutions, from an author who might be the most influential design critic writing now (LARB).
Meet Me by the Fountain is a highly entertaining and evocative promenade through the mall\'s story of rise, fall, and ongoing reinvention, for readers of any generation..
In Lange\'s perceptive account, the Mall becomes newly strange and rich with contradiction: Malls are environments of both freedom and exclusion--of consumerism, but also of community.
She chronicles postwar architects\' and merchants\' invention of the mall, revealing how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent.
She now turns her sharp eye to another subject we only think we know.
But what was the mall, really? And have rumors of its demise been greatly exaggerated? In her acclaimed The Design of Childhood , Alexandra Lange uncovered the histories of toys, classrooms, and playgrounds.
Conventional wisdom holds that the Mall is dead.
Yet today, amid the aftershocks of financial crises and a global pandemic, as well as the rise of online retail, the dystopian husk of an abandoned shopping center has become one of our era\'s defining images.
In their prime, they proved a powerful draw for creative thinkers such as Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, and George Romero, who understood the mall\'s appeal as both critics and consumers.
Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce, the agora of the suburbs.
Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls.
Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards A smart and accessible cultural history.- Los Angeles Times A portrait--by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving--of one of America\'s most iconic institutions, from an author who might be the most influential design critic writing now (LARB)