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The Good Place : An Investigation of Shopping Mall as Shared Public Space Li, Weirong

Abstract

Shopping malls are one of the most important public spaces in contemporary public life. Since the 1950s, the privatization of malls and the replication of the shopping mall model all over the world have changed the way we experience them and our relationship with them. This project is an attempt to examine shopping mall as a type of public space to understand its unique spatial qualities that give rise to the series of complicated relationships formed within and with it over time. Ultimately, the project seeks to raise questions about what is valuable about a space and what constitutes a desirable public space through the lens of the shopping mall.

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Title
The Good Place : An Investigation of Shopping Mall as Shared Public Space
Creator
Li, Weirong
Date Issued
2020-05
Description
Shopping malls are one of the most important public spaces in contemporary public life. Since the 1950s, the privatization of malls and the replication of the shopping mall model all over the world have changed the way we experience them and our relationship with them. This project is an attempt to examine shopping mall as a type of public space to understand its unique spatial qualities that give rise to the series of complicated relationships formed within and with it over time. Ultimately, the project seeks to raise questions about what is valuable about a space and what constitutes a desirable public space through the lens of the shopping mall.
Subject
Landscape Architecture; Mount Pleasant; Kingsgate Mall; Consumption; Public Space
Geographic Location
Vancouver (B.C.)
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. LARC 598
Date Available
2020-05-14
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0390679
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74458
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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