When the Global Meets the Local at the Mall

Bibliographic Data

ID3756895
AuthorsRodrigo Salcedo (0000-0002-2844-1241, University of Illinois at Chicago and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume46
Issue8
Pages1084-1103
Publication date2003-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764202250500
OpenAlexW2087585601
LanguageEN
Citations received35
References cited22

The last 20 years have completely changed the image and function of the mall as developed in the 1950s by Victor Gruen and other pioneers. The mall has been transformed from a Fordist space that encourages mass consumption and sameness to a post-Fordist space that attempts to create social distinctions. Urban scholars have assumed that the mall is an outpost of the globalized economy that diminishes locality and human agency. In this article, the globalizing view of the mall is questioned, arguing in favor of "glocalization" processes that combine the post-Fordist capitalist logic of the mall industry with local characteristics that affect mall development

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