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The shopping mall has a great many antecedents: the opulent markets of Victorian London, the arcades of Paris, and the department stores in the United States that could swallow an entire city block.

In a new book, design critic Alexandra Lange describes how design played a major role in the shopping mall’s successes and failures. But don’t write the eulogy just yet. Alexandra Lange, a design ...

Author Alexandra Lange, who penned Meet Me by the Fountain, a book chronicling the history of the American mall, says the appeal of malls is far from gone. Mexico's Sheinbaum blasts Trump admin's move ...

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall, by Alexandra Lange (Bloomsbury Publishing, 320 pp., $28) When I was 12, I went to the mall after school to look at a dress in the window at ...