(Farrell, James J. One Nation Under Goods: Malls and the Seductions of American Shopping. Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2003. Print.)
"Shopping centers grew out of the convergence of several historical trends: cares and the new concentrations of population that cars made possible, commercial media (movies, magazines and radio) and the new consumer dreams that media made possible, and national brands and advertising. They were part of the socio-spatial segmentation of the city, as people decided that there should be a separate space for everything. Instead of integrating industry and commerce and residential life, Americans in the twentieth century decided to separate them, thus maintaining the purity of home life. So when people with consuming passions moved to the suburbs specializing in residential life, America's developers tried to respond to their real needs with shopping centers." (5)
