American Shopping Malls

​There is nothing quite as American as an indoor shopping mall. The following projects explore many facets of this unique American shopping experience through history and the world. 

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These projects were completed in winter term 2022/23 in the seminar Lang 701 Comparative Cultural Studies / Lang 901 Advanced North American Cultural Studies at Trier University. 

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• Suburban Living, The Death of Main Street, and The Rise of Lifestyle Centers

• US Car Culture & Malls

• Death of the CBDs

• Advantages & Disadvantages of Shopping Malls

• Decline of Shopping Malls

• Depiction of Malls in Fiction

• US Mall Culture & German Mall Culture: A Comparison

• Malls & US Economic Hegemony