Shopping Malls Collection

A shopping mall, shopping center/centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct, or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shop representing merchandisers, with interconnecting waterwayenabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area – a modern, indoor version of the traditional marketplace.
Modern "car-friendly" strip mall developed from the 1920s, and shopping malls corresponded with the rise of sub living in many parts of the Western World, especially the United States, after World War 2. From early on, the design tended to be inward-facing, with malls following theories of how customers could best be enticed in a controlled environment. Similar, the concept of a mall having one or more was pioneered early, with individual stores or smaller-scale  intended to benefit from the shoppers attracted by the big stores.