I recently watched this interesting documentary in my library. It explores how malls have been designed after the model of a church providing religion and a sense of purpose. The malls use the elements of the cathedral ceilings, water, plants and light, which essentially means that a place supports life. All this planning to entice people in has never worked on me. I disliked going to a mall the first time and every single time. I don’t enjoy feeling like a zombie. Here’s Papi’s take on shopping which gets too religious.
The documentary eventually makes it to India and shows how the forests are being sold for next to nothing to be constructed as malls. The government even destroyed a lot of the small business owners to construct huge malls. It explores malls in North America, Europe and Asia.
It also talks about malls that have ceased to exist. I did not quite understand the explanation, in fact there was no explanation why a mall goes from a thriving place to a dead place. It interviews a couple of guys who track the malls that are dead.
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