Malls must adapt to keep consumers coming in, particularly as mall staples such as Sears and JCPenney have closed hundreds of stores in the past few years, leaving many shopping centers with large ...

Joke’s on me. Despite my deep conviction that conspicuous consumption is one of the many reasons our planet is in such terrible trouble, I have come to love the mall. Shopping is, of course ...

A sad image is floating around in media and film in recent years. An empty, abandoned shopping mall. A shell of the busy, bustling activity that once took place within. More and more of these ...

And yet, as Lange writes in her book, people keep shopping, and "the majority of malls survive". As a phenomenon, the indoor mall emerged in the postwar boom in the US, and became a centrepiece of ...

In the bleary predawn hours, it's hard to tell Mall of America from any other high-end shopping center. Workers wield mops, hammers and forklifts. Under dim lights, Cinnabon bakers stretch and ...