Ansal Plaza Delhi: Inside the rise and fall of South Delhi's first mall now turned ghost town

For many Boomers and early Millennials, the mall evokes nostalgia akin to a first love. It housed the city’s first Shoppers ...
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The rise and fall of India's mall boom: What went wrong?

When India’s mall boom began in the early 2000s, shopping centres were hailed as the future of urban retail. Yet, two decades later, many of those glittering complexes stand half-empty or have shut ...
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From Main Street to mall : the rise and fall of the American department store / Vicki Howard

Overview: The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods ...
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The rise and fall of Amazon’s homegrown stores: A decade of retail experiments comes full circle

The original Amazon Books store in Seattle’s University Village, before it closed in 2022. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) In November 2015, an intrepid GeekWire photographer attached a camera ...
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The Rise And The Fall Of The Mail Chute

As the Industrial Age took the world by storm, city centers became burgeoning hubs of commerce and activity. New offices and apartments were built higher and higher as density increased and skylines ...