After World War II, an enigmatic architect and fierce socialist named Victor Gruen built the first real shopping mall and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. There's a psychological phenomenon that explains why we lose track of time in large shopping centers, and it was indirectly created by the man who designed the ...

It was the birth of the US shopping mall: a cultural institution that would extend across ... modern US mall dates back to the opening of Southdale and its designer, Victor Gruen. Gruen was an ...

Enter Victor Gruen, a man who would later become the ... Malls began springing up in every American suburb, along with large shopping-center-mall hybrids and everything in between.

Though Minnesota is home to the Mall of America, it's also the birthplace of the country's very first indoor mall — Southdale ...

It was the vision of Viennese-born architect Victor Gruen, who sought to ... Center was a stone’s throw from Mall of America, ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write on the latest trends in malls and shopping centers. At this point, the U.S. housing crisis is well documented. The nation is short ...

HAMMOND — People used to flock to Woodmar Mall to buy CDs at Woodmar Records, play the Captain America and the Avengers arcade game in Aladdin's Castle or stop at the merry-go-round while ...

Shopping and factory outlets represent significant institutions in modern Western culture. They are a conglomeration of buildings, or one large building, containing various businesses, stores and ...

Shopping malls continue to be prime hotspots for criminal syndicates looking for easy targets across South Africa. Recently, Durban metro police made a breakthrough by busting a syndicate that ...

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