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Victor Gruen e lo shopping mall come modello di social design
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Il saggio ricostruisce la genesi dello shopping mall come modello spaziale per il commercio contemporaneo, illustrandone la sua concezione nel contesto dello sviluppo della città americana del secondo dopoguerra ed esaminando alcuni dei motivi che hanno reso tale modello uno dei luoghi privilegiati della socialità contemporanea. Formulato sul piano teorico e operativo dallo Studio Gruen, il concetto spaziale e sociale del mall si è progressivamente insinuato in molte altre tipologie architettoniche, commerciali e non commerciali, promuovendone principalmente la dimensione ludico-commerciale rispetto all’originale formulazione, che prevedeva una equilibrata integrazione tra retail e servizi in una fruizione pedonalizzata. Il saggio si interroga, infine, sul fenomeno del deadmalling (lo smantellamento e la chiusura dei centri commerciali), che porrà nei prossimi decenni problemi di riconversione di questi luoghi, rendendo forse di nuovo attuale una delle originali vocazioni del mall come centro civico di aggregazione sociale.
This essay reconstructs the genesis of the shopping mall as a spatial model for contemporary retail trade, outlining its conception in the context of urban development in the United States after World War II. It also explores some of the reasons that have made this model one of the privileged spaces of contemporary socialization. Studio Gruen is credited with developing the spatial and social concept of the mall from a theoretical and practical point of view; the mall has progressively made its way into many other architectural typologies, both commercial and non-commercial, mainly promoting its recreational-commercial dimension as opposed to the original design, which envisaged a balanced integration of retail and facilities in a pedestrian-oriented context. Finally, the essay examines the phenomenon of “deadmalling” (the dismantling and closure of shopping centres), which will create the issue of having to decide how to reconvert these places in the coming decades, perhaps giving new relevance to one of the original functions of the mall as a social space for aggregation.
Title: Victor Gruen e lo shopping mall come modello di social design
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Il saggio ricostruisce la genesi dello shopping mall come modello spaziale per il commercio contemporaneo, illustrandone la sua concezione nel contesto dello sviluppo della città americana del secondo dopoguerra ed esaminando alcuni dei motivi che hanno reso tale modello uno dei luoghi privilegiati della socialità contemporanea.
Formulato sul piano teorico e operativo dallo Studio Gruen, il concetto spaziale e sociale del mall si è progressivamente insinuato in molte altre tipologie architettoniche, commerciali e non commerciali, promuovendone principalmente la dimensione ludico-commerciale rispetto all’originale formulazione, che prevedeva una equilibrata integrazione tra retail e servizi in una fruizione pedonalizzata.
Il saggio si interroga, infine, sul fenomeno del deadmalling (lo smantellamento e la chiusura dei centri commerciali), che porrà nei prossimi decenni problemi di riconversione di questi luoghi, rendendo forse di nuovo attuale una delle originali vocazioni del mall come centro civico di aggregazione sociale.
This essay reconstructs the genesis of the shopping mall as a spatial model for contemporary retail trade, outlining its conception in the context of urban development in the United States after World War II.
It also explores some of the reasons that have made this model one of the privileged spaces of contemporary socialization.
Studio Gruen is credited with developing the spatial and social concept of the mall from a theoretical and practical point of view; the mall has progressively made its way into many other architectural typologies, both commercial and non-commercial, mainly promoting its recreational-commercial dimension as opposed to the original design, which envisaged a balanced integration of retail and facilities in a pedestrian-oriented context.
Finally, the essay examines the phenomenon of “deadmalling” (the dismantling and closure of shopping centres), which will create the issue of having to decide how to reconvert these places in the coming decades, perhaps giving new relevance to one of the original functions of the mall as a social space for aggregation.
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