Richard Longstreth

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Richard Longstreth

Education

#678

World Rank

#977

Historical Rank

#294

USA Rank

Pedagogy

#230

World Rank

#299

Historical Rank

#77

USA Rank

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Education

Richard Longstreth's Degrees

PhD Art History University of California, Berkeley
Masters Art History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Art History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Richard W. Longstreth is an architectural historian and a professor at George Washington University where he directs the program in historic preservation. Longstreth received an A.B. in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, and a Ph.D. in architectural history from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977. He taught at Kansas State University before joining the George Washington University faculty in 1983.

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Richard Longstreth's Published Works

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Published Works

City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950 (1997) (92)
The Buildings of Main Street: A Guide to American Commercial Architecture (1987) (25)
The Diffusion of the Community Shopping Center Concept during the Interwar Decades (1997) (20)
The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914–1941. By Richard Longstreth. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. xviii + 248 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, index, and notes. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0262122146 (1999) (19)
The Significance of the Recent past (1991) (19)
Cultural Landscapes: Balancing Nature and Heritage in Preservation Practice (2008) (18)
The Mall in Washington, 1791-1991 (2003) (17)
Architectural History and the Practice of Historic Preservation in the United States (1999) (13)
Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings (1979) (12)
I Can't See It; I Don't Understand It; And It Doesn't Look Old to Me (2013) (11)
The Neighborhood Shopping Center in Washington, D. C., 1930-1941 (1992) (10)
Architecture in Philadelphia;: A guide (1974) (9)
Compositional Types in American Commercial Architecture (1986) (7)
Academic Eclecticism in American Architecture (1982) (7)
The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960 (2010) (7)
Developing expertise: architecture and real estate in Metropolitan America (2018) (7)
The Mixed Blessings of Success: The Hecht Company and Department Store Branch Development after World War II (1997) (7)
On the Edge of the World: Four Architects in San Francisco at the Turn of the Century (1983) (6)
Sears, Roebuck and the Remaking of the Department Store, 1924-42 (2006) (5)
Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America (2005) (4)
Washington and the Landscape of Fear (2006) (4)
Houses for a New World: Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945–1965 by Barbara Miller Lane (review) (2017) (4)
Bringing "Downtown" to the Neighborhoods: Wieboldt's, Goldblatt's, and the Creation of Department Store Chains in Chicago (2007) (3)
Looking beyond the Icons: Midcentury Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism (2015) (3)
Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829-1929. By Molly W. Berger (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 328 pp. $60.00) (2013) (3)
The Difficult Legacy of Urban Renewal (2014) (3)
Julia Morgan: Some Introductory Notes (1975) (3)
The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space. By Reinhold Martin. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. xix + 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 0-262-13426-8 (2004) (2)
The Charnley House : Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the making of Chicago's gold coast (2004) (2)
:Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture. (2005) (2)
Vicki Howard. From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store. (2016) (1)
Retail development and urban form in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (2018) (1)
When the Present Becomes Past (2013) (1)
Antoinette Forrester Downing, 14 July 1904-9 May 2001 (2002) (1)
Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream. By M. Jeffrey Hardwick. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 268 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-812-23762-5 (2004) (1)
The Forgotten Arterial Landscape (1997) (1)
Frank Lloyd Wright : Preservation, Design, and Adding to Iconic Buildings (2014) (1)
The Parts and Their Whole (2014) (1)
Preservation and Design (1982) (1)
Harwell Hamilton Harris (1993) (1)
Book Review:Preservation Comes of Age: From Williamsburg to the National Trust, 1926-1949 Charles B. Hosmer, Jr. (1982) (1)
Don’t Get Out: The Automobile’s Impact on Five Building Types in Los Angeles, 1921–1941 (1996) (0)
David Lowenthal: An Appreciation (2022) (0)
Hotel: An American History (review) (2009) (0)
Review: Addison Hutton: Quaker Architect, 1834-1916 by Elizabeth Biddle Yarnall (1975) (0)
BEATRIX FARRAND'S AMERICAN LANDSCAPES: HER GARDENS AND CAMPUSES and CHARLES A. PLATT: THE ARTIST AS ARCHITECT (1987) (0)
A Country House by Napoleon Le Brun (1967) (0)
Merchant of Illusion: James Rouse, America's Salesman of the Businessman's Utopia (2005) (0)
Monumental Challenge (2002) (0)
Developing Expertise: architecture and real estate in metropolitan America (2019) (0)
Review: Common Landscape in America, 1580 to 1845 by John R. Stilgoe; Metropolitan Corridor; Railroads and the American Scene by John R. Stilgoe (1986) (0)
Review: Holabird and Roche, Holabird and Root: An Illustrated Catalog of Works by Robert Bruegmann (1992) (0)
Review: The Bungalow: The Production of a Global Culture by Anthony D. King; The American Bungalow, 1880-1930 by Clay Lancaster (1987) (0)
Hotel: An American History. By A. K. Sandoval-Strausz (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 375 pp.) (2009) (0)
Review: Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s by Kevin Starr (1991) (0)
The Architectural Historian in America: A Symposium in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Society of Architectural Historians. Elisabeth Blair MacDougall (1991) (0)
Williamsburg, Virginia: A City before the State, 1699-1999: A 300th Anniversary History Robert Maccubbin (2002) (0)
High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century (2014) (0)
1-1-1982 Preservation and Design (2017) (0)
John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle. Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 293. $34.95 (2005) (0)
Review: Building with Nature: Roots of the San Francisco Bay Region Tradition by Leslie Mandelson Freudenheim, Elisabeth Sacks Sussman (1976) (0)
Hotel: An American History (review) (2010) (0)
From Farm to Campus: Planning, Politics, and the Agricultural College Idea in Kansas (1985) (0)
David Smiley.Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925–1956. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. xi+357 pp.; 133 black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. (2015) (0)
Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States by Whitney Martinko (2021) (0)
Landscapes of Desire: Anglo Mythologies of Los Angeles. By William Alexander McClung. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xx, 277 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-21827-2.) (2001) (0)
Review: California's Mission Revival by Karen J. Weitze (1985) (0)
Review: House a Home (2013) (0)
Review: A Concise History of American Architecture by Leland M. Roth (1980) (0)
Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City. By Matthew Gandy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. 344 pp. Index, notes, maps, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0–262–07224–6 (2002) (0)
Volume Information (1982) (0)
Fay Jones' Stoneflower: Eden Isle, Arkansas (1983) (0)
Review: House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage (2011) (0)
A HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN THE (2015) (0)
America's Main Street Hotels: Transiency and Community in the Early Auto Age by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle (2010) (0)
Julia Morgan, Architect (1977) (0)
Living Over the Store: Architecture and Local Urban Life by Howard Davis (review) (2014) (0)
Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity by Jeffrey M. Chusid (review) (2013) (0)
Providence Independent, V. 23, Thursday, December 2, 1897, [Whole Number: 1170] (2020) (0)
Review: Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office by Antoinette J. Lee (2001) (0)
Book Review:Architecture, Ambition, and Americans: A Social History of American Architecture Wayne Andrews (1979) (0)
Index Volume 46 (2013) (0)
Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829-1929 by Molly W. Berger (review) (2013) (0)

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