This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by design critic Alexandra Lange to talk about her book Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall on the evolution of shopping malls in America.

In the Plus segment: How online shopping has affected malls.
 
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

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