Imagining Philadelphia
Imagining Philadelphia

Author: Philip Stevick

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1996-08-29

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780812233773

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Some travelers visited the classic destinations of earlier times, such as the great waterworks complex, and some reacted generally to the tone and temper of the city. Together, these accounts fall into patterns that often convey a mythic reading of the city, as a place of uncommon order and symmetry, for example, or a place of great torpor and dullness, or a city extraordinary for the way in which elements of wilderness interpenetrate the metropolitan core.

The Urban Department Store in America, 1850–1930
The Urban Department Store in America, 1850–1930

Author: Dr Louisa Iarocci

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2014-12-28

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 140944743X

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In the late nineteenth century, the urban department store arose as a built artifact and as a social institution in the United States. While the physical building type is the foundation of this comprehensive architectural study, Iarocci reaches beyond the analysis of the brick and mortar to reconsider how the ‘spaces of selling’ were culturally-produced spaces, as well as the product of interrelated economic, social, technological and aesthetic forces.