We Have Seen It All. At the Mall
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2386378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carla Corroto (Otterbein University, Westerville, OH, USA), Laurel Richardson (The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 9-10 |
| Pages | 1078-1084 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800418789451 |
| OpenAlex | W2883886087 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
Many of us have conflicted attitudes toward suburban shopping malls in the United States. Malls are environmentally irresponsible, reinforce a dependence on cars, fortify economic and social stratification, generate private-property, emphasize consumption, and are architecturally disappointing. Malls are also the places where we bought school shoes, where we garnered our first jobs, where we may see a diversity of products and people and tastes, and, remarkably, malls can still surprise us. This article is an overview of mall criticism and a narrative from reluctant mall enthusiasts. We sit at an equivocal place-in between the complexity and contradiction of the suburban shopping mall-while enjoying lunch
Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Business · Contradiction · Criticism · Epistemology · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Public relations · Shopping mall · Sociology · Surprise · Architecture, Design, and Social History · Law · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis · Urbanization and City Planning
Sprawl
Place and placelessness
Do malls contribute to the privatisation of public space and the erosion of the public sphere? Reconsidering the role of shopping centres
Brave New Neighborhoods
Edgeless Cities
Concierge or Information Desk
USA's Destiny? Regulating Space and Creating Community in American Shopping Malls
Reclaiming public space
When the Global Meets the Local at the Mall
Toward a Social Topography
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |