American Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University

Shopping Mall and
Shopping Center Studies

These experimental pages provide an introduction to shopping malls
 as subjects for historical, social, and cultural studies of the United States.

Reorganized, with additional new pages, October 2006.     
    
The Mall, Pontiac, Michigan, about 1960. [Post card]
Quick Links
    
  Sources of Current Information    
    
History of Shopping Centers
    
       Largest Shopping Malls in the World

.Largest Shopping Malls in the United States
    
Connecticut Shopping Malls  
    
.Shopping Mall Terminology
   
Mall Etymology
    
Bibliography
    
Periodicals
Fiction with Shopping Mall Settings
     
Children's Literature Set in Shopping Malls
 

Links to Other Pages on this Site

Brief descriptions and URL addresses of major trade organizations that collect and publicize information about shopping centers.

Largest Shopping Malls in the World
     
The twenty largest shopping malls in the world, ranked by leasable retail space, listed with basic information. Updated frequently. 
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History of Shopping Centers
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Brief descriptions of historically important shopping centers and malls in the United States, notable mall architects and developers, and links to external sources.
    
Largest Shopping Malls in the United States
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Basic information on the largest eighteen shopping malls, ranked by leasable retail space. Information is current as of 2004 or later.

Connecticut Shopping Malls
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List of more than 40 shopping centers and malls larger than 250,000 square feet GLA in the home state of this web page. Includes basic information and location of each shopping center on an outline map.

Shopping Center Terminology
   
Succinct definitions of basic terms relating to shopping malls and their operations.  
 
Mall Etymology
   
Illustrated historical definitions and usages of the word mall.
   
Bibliography
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Selected list of academic books and articles on shopping malls, and a collection of other shopping centers bibliographies.

Academic Journals and Trade Periodicals

Bibliography of journals, magazines, reports, and other serial publications useful for general research on shopping centers.
    
Fiction with Shopping Mall Settings
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Bibliography of novels in English with shopping mall settings.
    
Children's Literature Set in Shopping Malls
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Bibliography of American children's books and adolescent literature set in shopping malls.     		   

              
Sources of Current Information on Shopping Centers

Urban Land Institute  (ULI)

The ULI (founded in 1936) is a nonprofit research and educational organization based in Washington, D.C. It is primarily concerned with land use and development generally, including shopping centers and malls. It publishes the journal Urban Land and a wide variety of books on land use issues.

National Research Bureau  (NRB)

The NRB, based in Chicago with an office in Stamford, Connecticut, has been a leading provider of real estate information, including comprehensive data on shopping centers, since 1951.

Institute of Shopping Centre Management (Hong Kong) maintains a list of international shopping center trade organizations. Click "Useful Links."
 		International Council on Shopping Centers  (ICSC)

The ICSC (founded in 1957) is a shopping industry trade organization based in New York City. It promotes shopping centers, collects and distributes information,  sponsors conferences, issues news releases, and  publishes a wide variety of books and other materials.
 
Directory of Major Malls

The Directory of Major Malls Inc., headquartered in Nyack, New York, publishes an annual directory of  the 40,000 largest US and Canadian shopping centers titled Directory of Major Malls. It is the successor to Jomurpa Publishing Corp., which originated the directory in 1979.


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History  |   Connecticut Shopping Malls
Terminology  |  Etymology  |  Bibliography  |  Periodicals
Fiction  with Shopping Mall Settings   |   Children's Literature Set in Shopping Malls
      
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Created January 2000 by Emil Pocock, pocock@easternct.edu.  Last modified November 1, 2007.
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