America's shopping centres A mid‐life crisis?

Abstract

The process of suburbanisation produced the great flowering of the American shopping centre during the 1950s and 60s, although they started even earlier. They evolved into three major types — regional, community, and neighbourhood, and in the 1970s these were augmented by specialty theme, multi‐use, and factory outlets type centres. But US shopping centres are now facing a number of problems: department stores (their principal tenants) are in decline; regional malls are finding difficulty in adapting to new retail conditions; and the malls themselves are becoming very expensive to operate. David Rogers looks at the “mid‐life crisis” of the American shopping centre and makes some comparisons with the situation in the UK.

Citation

Rogers, D. (1987), "America's shopping centres A mid‐life crisis?", Retail and Distribution Management, Vol. 15 No. 6, pp. 21-25. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb018352