Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction 1. Urbanism harnessing the consumption-juggernaut: Shopping centres and urban (re-)development -- Shopping �a l'am�ericaine, Kenny Cupers -- The 1960s Shopping Centre Grid of Helsinki, Juhana Lahti -- Shopping Centres as Catalysts for New Multifunctional Urban Centralities, Yannick Vanhaelen and G�ery 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.

"Shopping Towns Europe is the first book to explore the introduction and dissemination of the shopping centre in Europe. European shopping centres are often assumed to be no more than carbon copies of their American precursors - however the wide-ranging case studies featured in this book reveal a very different story. Drawing connections between architectural history, political economy and commerce, together these studies tell us much about the status and role of modernist design, the history of consumption, and the rapidly-changing social, urban, and national contexts of post-war Europe. The book's eighteen chapters explore case studies spanning the continent on both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Britain and The Netherlands to Sweden and the USSR. The focus is on the three decades following the first introduction of the new typology in 1945, tracing the variety of typological manifestations that occurred in widely different contexts, from Keynesianism to communism to military dictatorship. The book also explores the role of the shopping centre in urban reconstruction, and examines how new shopping centres were designed to elicit specifically modern behaviour and introduce new conceptions of collectivity into citizens' everyday lives"--