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"Spring Sale at Bendel's" by Florine Stetheimer, 1921

Wanamaker�s �Grand Depot� Department Store, Philadelphia, 1876

Department stores along New York�s �Ladies� Mile� (Broadway from 9th-23rd Streets), 1860s-1910s

Schleisinger & Meyer Department Store, State Street, Chicago (later Carson, Pirie, Scott). Louis Sullivan, 1899

Shaker Square shopping center and rapid-transit station, Shaker Heights (Cleveland suburb). Small and Rowley for the Van Sweringen Brothers, 1927-29

Country Club Plaza, Country Club District (suburb of Kansas City, Mo.) Edward Delk and Edward Tanner for developer J. C. Nichols, 1922-24

�Miracle Mile� of Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles. Focus of 18 acres purchased by A.W. Ross in 1920 and developed over the next decade

Bullock�s Wilshire Department Store. John & Donald Parkinson for A.W. Ross, 1929

El Paseo Drive-In Market, Los Angeles. Ted R. Cooper, 1928

Rockefeller Center, New York. Reinhard and Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison and MacMurray; Hood and Fouilhoux for John D. Rockefeller, 1931-39

Underground pedestrian mall of Rockerfeller Center

Northgate Shopping Center, first "regional mall." Seattle, Washington. John Graham for Rex Allison, 1947-50

Southdale Shopping Center, Edina, Mn. (suburb of Detroit), first enclosed mall. Victor Gruen, 1956

Los Angeles �strip� of �taxpayer buildings,� c. 1960

Disneyland, Anaheim, Ca. Walt Disney and his �Imagineers,� 1955

Nicollet Pedestrian Mall, Minneapolis, Mn. Lawrence Halprin, 196l

Galleria/Post Oak Shopping Center, Houston, Tx. Hellmuth Obata and Kassabaum [HOK] for developer Gerald Hines, 1968-69

Horton Plaza Shopping Center and Gaslamp District, San Diego, Ca. Jon Jerde Partnership for developer Ernest Hahn, 1977-85

View of Horton Plaza

CityWalk and Universal City master plan, Los Angeles Jerde Partnership for Universal Studios, 1989-93

Renovation of 1920s Main Street, Ardmore, Pa, 1990

Two Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, Ca. Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz for developer Doug Stitzel, 1990

Princeton Forrestal Village, Plainsboro , N. J. (along U.S. Route 1) Bower Lewis Thrower w/ Sasaki Associates for Scott Toombs, 1990

Mall of America �megamall,� Edina, Mn. (suburb of Minneapolis) Jerde Partnership for the Ghermesian Brothers, 1992