The Urban Department Store in America, 1850-1930

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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.