“Who wants to sit in that desolate-looking spot?” Frank Lloyd Wright carped of the atrium inside the first enclosed shopping mall, the Southdale Center in Edina, Minnesota. But 75,000 people ...

we should live at the mall.” It came in response to a radio ad in which a mom (or, well, “a mom”) said she wished she could live at the Providence Place shopping center. So, these impulsive ...