The Mall of America as a Tourist Attraction

Gerlach, Jerry; Janke, James

doi:10.1111/j.1949-8535.2001.tb00017.x

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“…Accordingly, cinemas, theatres, family entertainment centres, geographically themed areas, and even indoor skating rinks, ski slopes and rollercoasters can contribute to a hyper--real and arguably Disneyfied consumption experience. Liked or loathed, these attractions have allowed shopping malls to maintain their popularity as sites of consumption through an era of successful alternative retail formats, such as online shopping, sometimes to the point of being tourist attractions in their own right (Butler 1991;Gerlach and Janke 2001).…”

Section: Malls As Marketplaces?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Marketplace icons: shopping malls

Warnaby

Medway

2016

Consumption Markets & Culture

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This article considers shopping malls as marketplace icons. We suggest that shopping malls can be regarded as a significant symbol of consumption in an age of late modernity, and highlight key aspects of their development. The role of the shopping mall as an agent of creative destruction, influencing the nature of the retail landscape (especially with regard to the implications of -stereotypically suburban --malls for traditional urban retail provision), is discussed. We also consider the implications for notions of 'place' (in terms of authenticity and meaning etc.) arising from the fundamental characteristics of shopping malls, and end by suggesting that the shopping mall, as a marketplace icon, continues to dynamically and iteratively define and refine the ongoing interactions between consumers, the act of consumption, and place and space

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Section: Malls As Marketplaces?mentioning

confidence: 99%