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Category:Shopping Center
SHOPPING CENTER. A shopping mall, shopping center/centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct, or simply a mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to walk from unit to unit. Other establishments including movie theaters and restaurants are also often included.
As traders moved into more spacious shops in the early 19th century high streets developed, but wealthier people (who could afford to travel to city centers for pleasure) started wanting shelter from rain, so shopping arcades were developed. With new innovations like escalators these evolved into shopping centers and with the rise of the automobile these evolved into shopping malls.
From early on, the design tended to be inward-facing, with malls following theories of how customers could best be enticed in a controlled environment. Similar, the concept of a mall having one or more "anchor stores" or "big box stores" was pioneered early, with individual stores or smaller-scale chain stores intended to benefit from the shoppers attracted by the big stores.
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"Shopping Malls," Wikipedia
Pages in category "Shopping Center"
The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.