Sunday Special: Mall Talk
Sunday Current rounds up the state of the Shoputopia in December, 2006:
Virginia Postrel demonstrates how the mall has confounded all expectations and imprecations, and fulfilled its destiny as an urban center.
Tim Cavanaugh visits the airtight shopping center orbiting Earth at the fifth Lagrangian point.
Grove CEO Rick J. Caruso tells how to make a successful shopping center.
In China, Mitchell Landsberg tries to figure out the materialist dialectic driving the world's mall superpower.
Tale of the Tape: Swati Pandey sizes up the emporia from Crenshaw to South Coast.
Meghan Daum surveys mall cinema, and finds that if you don't get knocked up by a cad, electrocuted by robots, or devoured by zombies, you may just find a bargain.
Mimi Pond searches for the cartoon Christmas Army.
