Case Study in Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography: Malls as Machines for Shopping

Importance of Shopping in American Culture

How do Malls Work?

• Manufacturing a Sense of Place
• Ideology of Nostalgia

Behavioral Geography of The Shopping Mall

• Entrapment
• Disorientation
• Controlled Movement

Global Culture?

• Globalization and the Importance of Place Image in Place Competition
• Cultural Flows—Core and Periphery