A shopping mall is a modern, chiefly North American, term for a form of shopping precinct or shopping center in which one or more buildings form a complex of shops with interconnecting walkways, usually indoors. In 2017, shopping malls accounted for 8% of retailing space in the United States.
Shopping Malls Worldwide
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Technical innovations such as electric lighting and escalators were introduced from the late 19th century. From the late 20th century, entertainment venues such as movie theaters and restaurants began to be added. As a single built structure, early shopping centers were often architecturally significant constructions, enabling wealthier patrons to buy goods in spaces protected from the weather.
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Торговые центры по всему миру
Centres Commerciaux dans le Monde
In places around the world, the term shopping centre is used, especially in Europe, Australia, and South America. Mall is a term used predominantly in North America. Outside of North America, “shopping precinct” and “shopping arcade” are also used. In Canada, “shopping centre” is often used officially (as in Square One Shopping Centre), but conversationally, “mall” is mostly used. In North America, Persian Gulf countries, and India, the term shopping mall is usually applied to enclosed retail structures (and is generally abbreviated to simply mall), while shopping centre usually refers to open-air retail complexes; both types of facilities usually have large parking lots, face major traffic arterials, and have few pedestrian connections to surrounding neighbourhoods.
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The largest enclosed shopping mall from 1986 to 2004 was the 350,000 m2 (3,800,000 sq ft) West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In 2019 the largest mall in the world was the New South China Mall in Dongguan, China with a gross floor area of 892,000 m2 (9,600,000 sq ft), second-largest shopping mall was the Golden Resources Mall in Beijing, China. SM Megamall in the Philippines, was the world’s third-largest. The fourth largest shopping mall was SM City North EDSA in Quezon City, Philippines and the fifth largest shopping mall was 1 Utama in Malaysia.
The Dubai Mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates was in 2019 the second-largest mall in the world by total land area, and the 26th-largest shopping mall in the world by gross leasable area. The most visited shopping mall in the world and largest mall in the United States was the Mall of America, located near the Twin Cities in Bloomington, Minnesota. The largest mall in South Asia was Lucky One Mall in Karachi, Pakistan.
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