The heyday of shopping malls is gone, but far from forgotten
by Barbara Spindel
Jun 30, 2022
3 minutes
In recent years, so-called dead malls have attracted photographers intrigued by seeing the one-time symbols of suburban prosperity emptied of all life, abandoned and decaying. With as many as a quarter of the nation’s 1,000 remaining shopping malls predicted to go under in the next five years, these documentarians will continue to have plenty of material.
Given the mall’s fading prospects, one might expect Alexandra Lange’s “Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall” to
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