Anette Baldauf
is a sociologist specializing in city development, consumer culture, and feminism. Her publications include Lips. Tits. Hits. Power? Popkultur und Feminismus (ed. with Katherina Weingartner) (Vienna: Folio 2002) and Entertainment Cities. Stadtentwicklung und Unterhaltungskultur (Vienna: Springer 2007).
Eurozine Articles
Shopping town USA
Victor Gruen, the Cold War, and the shopping mall
Victor Gruen's "shopping towns" were supposed to strengthen civic life and alleviate women's lives. But within a decade they had become the architectural expression of the policy of gender segregation underlying the US postwar consumer utopia. [Lithuanian version added] [more]





