Is there anywhere quite like the mall? It is a rare and declining public space that’s deeply intimate, answering profound human needs, writes Ruth Jones.
In 2017, the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota — the largest mall in the United States —announced a writer in residence. The 5.6 million-square-foot shopping centre encompasses, like the West Edmonton Mall and the Woodbine Centre in Etobicoke, a theme park and a Hard Rock Café, unlikely backdrops for a literary experience. Brian Sonia-Wallace, an L.A.
American architecture critic Alexandra Lange would not be surprised. Lange has spent her career writing about the ways design — from corporate campuses to children’s play areas — influences our most intimate selves. Doing the research for her new book, “Meet Is there anywhere quite like the mall? On a summer afternoon, the chill of the air conditioning makes your skin prickle, the food court offers four kinds of french fries . In its heyday, still captured in films like “Mall Cop” and TV shows like “Better Call Saul” and “Stranger Things,” it sometimes seemed everyone was there — from sticky-fingered toddlers at the candy kiosk to 80-something mall walkers doing laps and teenagers moving like schools of fish through a retail ocean.
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