Get In Loser, We're Going to the Mall

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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“The mall is personal,” writes design critic Alexandra Lange in her latest book “Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall.” For denizens of the suburbs, the mall is the place where people got their first jobs, got their first taste of independence goofing around with middle school friends, or bought their first hot dog on a stick. And while often derided by design critics, the mall in its heyday has been immortalized in movies like “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Clueless,” “Mean Girls,” and more recently “Stranger Things.” With the rise in the online economy, many have heralded the demise of these temples of commerce but malls continue to reinvent themselves. We’ll talk about the cultural and design history of malls and hear from you about your favorite mall memory. Guests: Alexandra Lange, author, “Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall”; design critic; columnist, Bloomberg CityLab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for Forum comes from Rancho La Puerta, a wellness resort on 4,000 acres in the mountains of Baja, California, just 45 minutes from San Diego.
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0:23.3	first-time guests. Learn more at Rancho LePuerta.com. Support for Forum comes from Broadway
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1:08.3	From KQED.
1:13.6	Go get it. Yeah, we go get it. From KQED From KQED
1:16.6	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.
1:20.6	Coming up on forum
1:21.6	What does the mall mean to you?
1:31.3	Has it played a role in your life?
1:33.3	First job, first date, first taste of independence, when your parents let you roam free with middle school friends, as long as you met them by the fountain at a certain time?
1:43.3	The mall we love to hate on has played a much bigger social and cultural role than we give it credit for, according to Alexandra Lang, who joins us.
1:52.7	So get in, listeners.
1:54.0	We're going to the mall next on Forum.
1:56.9	We spend in big cheese on pastry.
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