Tear Down This Mall?

Taking America's "temple to consumerism" seriously

Over at The Bulwark recently, I wrote a review/broader piece bouncing off architecture critic Alexandra Lange’s history of the mall, Meet Me By the Fountain.

It’s an excellent book, and Lange writes up front that it’s much more than an urbanist critique of the mall (though it is to some extent) or a eulogy for the mall, or sensationalized account of the …