“Canada’s West Edmonton Mall has over 800 shops and services; 110 restaurants and places to eat; 19 movie theaters; a Caesar’s Palace bingo parlor; a 355-room hotel; and the world’s largest indoor amusement park, with forty-seven rides and the world’s largest (5-acre) indoor water park. The mall even has dolphin shows, a life-size replica of the Santa Maria, and for small yellow submarines for riding under the indoor lake. All of this occupies some 5.2 million square feet.” (193)

(Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Print.)