02348cam a2200397 i 4500 598005511 TxAuBib 20220731120000.0 220606s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2022016726 9781635576023 HRD 28.00 1635576024 HRD 28.00 (OCoLC)1325579853 TxAuBib rda Lange, Alexandra,. Meet me by the fountain : an inside history of the mall / Alexandra Lange. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. ©2022. 310 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-297) and index. Introduction: Why we go to the mall -- Every day will be a perfect shopping day -- The garden -- The mall and the public -- Make shopping beside the point -- Whose mall is it anyway? -- Dawn of the Dead mall -- The postapocalyptic mall -- Conclusion: The mall abroad. Since their birth in the 1950s, malls have been temples of commerce. Amid the aftershocks of financial crises, a global pandemic, and the rise of online retail, abandoned shopping centers have become one of our era's defining images. Lange chronicles the postwar invention of the mall, and shows how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in the cultural ascent. She shows that they are environments of both freedom and exclusion, of consumerism but also of community. -- adapted from jacket. An entertaining and evocative stroll through the rise, fall, and ongoing reinvention of malls, which proved to be a powerful draw for creative thinkers including Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, and George Romero, chronicles how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in cultural ascent. 20220808. jz. Shopping malls United States History. Shopping malls Social aspects. Shopping centers United States History. Informational works.