The Shopping Mall: Temple of Consumerism or the New “Women’s Space” in the City Center?

Authors

  • Stephanie Bock Berlin, Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik (http://www.difu.de)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/681

Keywords:

Architektur, Ökonomie, Raum, Regionalstudien, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

We can no longer imagine European city centers without those shopping malls originating from the USA. Using select examples from Berlin, Kerstin Dörhöfer questions the effect of these supposedly homogenously built ‘monoliths’ on urban culture and especially on gender relations. The shopping mall’s gradual conquest of city centers—at least according to the conclusion of this well-worth reading work—is not an expression of the ever-strengthening share women have in city life. Instead, this central space within the public sphere of the city thwarts the urban-based belief in the appropriation of the city space.

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Published

2008-11-07

Issue

No. 26 (2008): Dimensionen von Ungleichheit

Section

Offener Teil

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Copyright (c) 2008 Stephanie Bock

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