I’m quite fascinated by shopping malls. They featured so strongly in American movies of my youth, then the shopping centre spread to the UK, followed by their decline and the advent of bleak, but strangely beautiful ruin porn. To that end, I read Alexandra Lange’s history of the mall, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall recently. It’s a fascinating account of the initial drivers for the mall, their rise, decline and subsequent reinvention. It may not be an obvious con...
