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    Designing the World's Best Retail Centers

    Designing the World's Best Retail Centers


    $70.00

    • Format: Hardcover
    • 224 pages
    • Publisher: Images Publishing Dist AC
    • Published: July 2006
    • ISBN-10: 1876907452
    • ISBN-13: 9781876907457

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    Ronald A. Altoon is an internationally recognised authority on this history, development and architecture of the retail centre. This fascinating book places the modern retail centre in its context of the development of culture and trade, informing our understanding of the retail centre of today. Future prototypes are suggested, with an exploration of sustainable design in retail and the development of the 21st-century retail centre. Superbly illustrated, the book presents a host of projects from around the world, in a variety of contexts, including main street, urban, resort, transit-related, mixed-use and retail precincts. This book is a remarkable insight into the global, polymorphus and multi-cultural experience that is retail. Altoon & Porter's work is informed by a design philosophy that permeates a respect for context and culture, for an understanding and application of the traditional structural order. The firm actively seeks to expand its role beyond its practices into the civic, academic and cultural realms; such outreach is deeply ingrained in the
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