Inside this special livestream with your host, Mitch Hampton, here:

Alexandra Lange's "Meet Me At The Fountain", the first major book on the history of the mall a phenomenon that had an outsized influence for the past sixty years and, a Lange, makes clear in her book is often misunderstood and a force for as much positive as negative.

Lange's advantages as a writer are that she wears both the hats of a cultural or social historian and in her professional life is a design critic so she is equally as knowledgeable about aesthetics in the history of design and architecture.

I learned more from reading this book than I ever thought possible and will share Lange's prose and ideas with the audience, including some additional discussion of such classics as Robert Venturi's "Learning From Las Vegas", Martha Coolidge's movie Valley Girl , Charles Jenck's What Is Post-Modernism and some surprises revealed on the lunch.