Shopping Moll:
A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping
precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops
representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to
easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor
version of the traditional marketplace.
Modern "car-friendly" strip malls developed from
the 1920s, and shopping malls corresponded with the rise of suburban living in
many parts of the Western World, especially the United States, after World War
II. From early on, the design tended to be inward-facing, with malls following
theories of how customers could best be enticed in a controlled environment.
Similar, the concept of a mall having one or more "anchor" or
"big box" stores was pioneered early, with individual stores or smaller-scale
chain stores intended to benefit from the shoppers attracted by the big
stores.[1]
