Project on the City II: The Harvard Guide to Shopping

The Harvard Guide to Shopping, made by the Harvard Graduate School of Design and OMA, explores the spaces, people, techniques, ideologies, and inventions by which shopping has so dramatically refashioned the city at the turn of the century. Town centers, suburbs, streets, and now airports, train stations, museums, hospitals, schools, the Internet, and the military are shaped by the mechanisms and spaces of shopping. Perhaps the beginning of the 21st century will be remembered as the point where the urban could no longer be understood without shopping.