Alexandra is the author of a new book called meet me by the fountain. Alexander says we haven't seen the death of them all, even after two and a half years of a globa pandemic. We're going to talk about how they all became a ubiquitous part of american culture. And what's happening to day as mals across the country start to disappear.
No teenager in America in the 1980s could avoid the gravitational pull of the mall, not even author Alexandra Lange. In her new book, Meet Me by the Fountain, Lange writes about how malls were conceptually born out of a lack of space for people to convene in American suburbs. Despite the fact indoor shopping malls are no longer in their heyday, malls have not gone away completely. Lange writes about the history of mall culture, and how the mall became a ubiquitous part of American life.
Meet Us by the Fountain