Download America at the Mall: The Cultural Role of a Retail Utopia by Lisa Scharoun PDF

By Lisa Scharoun
This learn explores the non secular, emotional and actual results of the enclosed shopping center at the public, chronicling the expansion of the mall, its position in shaping city and suburban lifestyles, its optimistic and damaging affects on society and the surroundings, and its destiny viability. As this paintings exhibits, the mall continues to be wealthy in symbolic impression, and in lots of methods mirrors the yank condition.
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