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Alexandra Lange's "Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall"

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The Mall as a Form of Culture

Malls became the centre of a kind of story for american teanagers. And i felt like the cultural heat was around how the mall was being translated into other forms of culture, like all those teand movies. One of my favorite scenes that i think illustrates what you're trying to get at really well is the scene in clules where share and christian are coming up the escalator into this light filled atrium. Like here these beautiful, young, rich teans. A we're supposed to see them is infinitely desirable. And they are centred in this very neo classical mall architecture. So i think the films just provide this kind of shorthand for people of the feeling that

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