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shopping mallor shopping centreCollection of independent retail stores, services, and parking areas constructed and maintained by a management firm as a unit. It is a 20th-century adaptation of the historical marketplace. In the U.S., postwar migration from cities to suburbs and increased automobile use created a perceived need for centralized shopping facilities. The urban shopping arcade developed out of the need for shelter from the weather; Buffalo, N.Y., and Cleveland, Ohio, have charming trussed and glass-roofed examples. The next generation of shopping malls, the large regional centre sited in a vast sea of parking lots, bears little resemblance to its small, arcaded ancestors. Two of the world's largest malls are the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, and the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn. In recent years large shopping malls have attempted to revive an arcadelike atmosphere, often featuring atriums and balconies. shopping mall a large enclosed shopping centre How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The lower level shopping arcade, including the Paul R. Amidst this cinder-block terrain in Kingston, New York, the group was to restage the two most emblematic sites of modernity's public sphere--the shopping arcade and fairground--as unlikely cynosures of a renegade communications network. Inside the shopping arcade, the immediate area of the blast, a tangle of twisted metal, dust and sheets of concrete hanging from the collapsed roof, was sealed off. |
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