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 ...

Kickoff of demolition efforts at Chesterfield Mall on Oct. 15 brought back decades-old memories of first dates, shopping ...

Malls began springing up in every American suburb, along with large shopping-center-mall hybrids and everything in between. By 1960, just four years after Gruen's first mall, there were 4,500 ...

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 ...

The shopping mall featured a large central atrium with ... Over the next half-century, thousands of American malls copied Southdale's layout (which has since gone through several renovations).