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It's Thanksgiving week in the United States, which means capitalism! We're skipping (mainly) the talk of the midnight electronics runs, and heading straight to Small Business Saturday, when your local independent bookseller is doing their very best to put great books in your hands. Ever been in your local bookstore and thought -- I wish this place was the setting of a romance novel? We've got you, friends. We talk about the magic of bookstores, about the importance of small businesses, about bookshops as sites for revolution, and about the appeal of running your own little shop around the corner. And we recommend a bunch of books that are...honestly? Charming AF. Want more indie bookstore content? Support some booksellers at a bookstore we really love by purchasing the Fated Mates Best of 2024 Book Pack from our friends at Pocket Books Shop in Lancaster, PA. Don't forget to tag us on Instagram or Threads or Bluesky when you unbox! If you were shouting book names at your car stereo during this episode and want to shout them at other people, maybe you want to join our Patreon? You get an extra monthly episode from us and access to the incredible readers and brilliant people on the Fated Mates Discord! Support us and learn more at fatedmates.net/patreon. Our next read along is Judith Ivory's The Proposition, a terrific Pygmalion retelling and one of Sarah's favorites. Find it at your local independent bookseller, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books or Amazon.The BooksMeet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra LangeThe Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLeanThe Vampire in the Bookstore by Elle M. DrewBooked on a Feeling by Jayci LeeOnce Upon a Charming Bookshop by Heatherly BellA Seditious Affair by KJ CharlesLove in Winter Wonderland by Abiola BelloTaken by Charlotte SteinRock Chick by Kristen AshleyBetter than Fiction by Alexa MartinNice Girls Don't Live Forever by Molly HarperThe Earl Takes a Fancy by Lorraine HeathSeven Secrets of Seduction

This episode, we're going to a place where the lights are bright, the music is dim, and everything smells vaguely like cookies, pretzels, and overpriced lotions. That's right, we're going to the mall. Despite many predictions of near death, the mall is alive and well in many parts of the USA (and parts of the world). For this episode, we discuss Alexandra Lange's 2022 book Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall. Lange's architectural history takes us all the way back to the beginning, which in the case of malls, is not that long ago. Starting with early American malls in post-war America, Lange offers a sharp overview of how malls came to be and considers where they are still thriving now. We talk about our own relationships to malls and bigger questions raised by these American institutions. Is the mall a useful third space for communities? Or, are malls simply the best place to be wowed by build-a-bear operations and rollercoasters? Original air date: January 29, 2024

Writer and design critic Alexandra Lange talks about her book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Shopping Mall (Bloombury, 2023), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Meet Me by the Fountain is a history of the American shopping mall from its emergence to recent attempts to reinvent and reconceptualize the shells of “dead” shopping centers. Along the way, it details the mall's many ironies and contradictions and how it became the center and icon of community and culture, especially youth culture, in the late 20th century. Lange and Vinsel also discuss Lange's larger career and her work as an architecture and design critic. Lee Vinsel is an associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. He studies human life with technology, with particular focus on the relationship between government, business, and technological change. His first book, Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in July 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Writer and design critic Alexandra Lange talks about her book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Shopping Mall (Bloombury, 2023), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Meet Me by the Fountain is a history of the American shopping mall from its emergence to recent attempts to reinvent and reconceptualize the shells of “dead” shopping centers. Along the way, it details the mall's many ironies and contradictions and how it became the center and icon of community and culture, especially youth culture, in the late 20th century. Lange and Vinsel also discuss Lange's larger career and her work as an architecture and design critic. Lee Vinsel is an associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. He studies human life with technology, with particular focus on the relationship between government, business, and technological change. His first book, Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in July 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Writer and design critic Alexandra Lange talks about her book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Shopping Mall (Bloombury, 2023), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Meet Me by the Fountain is a history of the American shopping mall from its emergence to recent attempts to reinvent and reconceptualize the shells of “dead” shopping centers. Along the way, it details the mall's many ironies and contradictions and how it became the center and icon of community and culture, especially youth culture, in the late 20th century. Lange and Vinsel also discuss Lange's larger career and her work as an architecture and design critic. Lee Vinsel is an associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. He studies human life with technology, with particular focus on the relationship between government, business, and technological change. His first book, Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in July 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/architecture

Writer and design critic Alexandra Lange talks about her book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Shopping Mall (Bloombury, 2023), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Meet Me by the Fountain is a history of the American shopping mall from its emergence to recent attempts to reinvent and reconceptualize the shells of “dead” shopping centers. Along the way, it details the mall's many ironies and contradictions and how it became the center and icon of community and culture, especially youth culture, in the late 20th century. Lange and Vinsel also discuss Lange's larger career and her work as an architecture and design critic. Lee Vinsel is an associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. He studies human life with technology, with particular focus on the relationship between government, business, and technological change. His first book, Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in July 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Writer and design critic Alexandra Lange talks about her book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Shopping Mall (Bloombury, 2023), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Meet Me by the Fountain is a history of the American shopping mall from its emergence to recent attempts to reinvent and reconceptualize the shells of “dead” shopping centers. Along the way, it details the mall's many ironies and contradictions and how it became the center and icon of community and culture, especially youth culture, in the late 20th century. Lange and Vinsel also discuss Lange's larger career and her work as an architecture and design critic. Lee Vinsel is an associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. He studies human life with technology, with particular focus on the relationship between government, business, and technological change. His first book, Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in July 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Writer and design critic Alexandra Lange talks about her book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Shopping Mall (Bloombury, 2023), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Meet Me by the Fountain is a history of the American shopping mall from its emergence to recent attempts to reinvent and reconceptualize the shells of “dead” shopping centers. Along the way, it details the mall's many ironies and contradictions and how it became the center and icon of community and culture, especially youth culture, in the late 20th century. Lange and Vinsel also discuss Lange's larger career and her work as an architecture and design critic. Lee Vinsel is an associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. He studies human life with technology, with particular focus on the relationship between government, business, and technological change. His first book, Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in July 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer and design critic Alexandra Lange talks about her book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Shopping Mall (Bloombury, 2023), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Meet Me by the Fountain is a history of the American shopping mall from its emergence to recent attempts to reinvent and reconceptualize the shells of “dead” shopping centers. Along the way, it details the mall's many ironies and contradictions and how it became the center and icon of community and culture, especially youth culture, in the late 20th century. Lange and Vinsel also discuss Lange's larger career and her work as an architecture and design critic. Lee Vinsel is an associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. He studies human life with technology, with particular focus on the relationship between government, business, and technological change. His first book, Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in July 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer and design critic Alexandra Lange talks about her book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Shopping Mall (Bloombury, 2023), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Meet Me by the Fountain is a history of the American shopping mall from its emergence to recent attempts to reinvent and reconceptualize the shells of “dead” shopping centers. Along the way, it details the mall's many ironies and contradictions and how it became the center and icon of community and culture, especially youth culture, in the late 20th century. Lange and Vinsel also discuss Lange's larger career and her work as an architecture and design critic. Lee Vinsel is an associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. He studies human life with technology, with particular focus on the relationship between government, business, and technological change. His first book, Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in July 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture

Writer and design critic Alexandra Lange talks about her book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Shopping Mall (Bloombury, 2023), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Meet Me by the Fountain is a history of the American shopping mall from its emergence to recent attempts to reinvent and reconceptualize the shells of “dead” shopping centers. Along the way, it details the mall's many ironies and contradictions and how it became the center and icon of community and culture, especially youth culture, in the late 20th century. Lange and Vinsel also discuss Lange's larger career and her work as an architecture and design critic. Lee Vinsel is an associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. He studies human life with technology, with particular focus on the relationship between government, business, and technological change. His first book, Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in July 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

We're thrilled to talk with two of America's foremost architecture critics, recorded in New York City. Alexandra Lange is an award-winning architectural critic for Curbed.com and the author of several books on architecture and America's built environment. A graduate of NYU's Institute of Fine Arts and a former Loeb Fellow in the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, her most recent book is Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall. Paul Goldberger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and educator who made his mark as an architecture critic for the New York Times. A New Jersey native, Paul studied art history at Yale University and then settled in NYC, where he now serves as the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School. He is the author of a number of books on architecture, and an advisor on matters of architecture and design to institutions all over the country. His latest book is DUMBO: The Making of a New York Neighborhood. 

In the late 1990s, American malls were the place to be. Families from around the world vacationed at the Mall of America. Teens flocked to Britney Spears' Hair Zone Mall Tour. A nine-year-old Jonathan basked in the fine fragrance mists of Juniper Breeze. Today, there are only around 700 indoor malls in the US, and more are in the midst of shuttering. What happened to these institutions? This week, Alexandra Lange joins Jonathan to discuss the rise, fall, and potential resurrection of the American mall. Alexandra Lange is a design critic and author of “Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall.” Her essays, reviews and features have been published in the New York Times, The New Yorker and New York Magazine, as well as in design publications including Bloomberg Citylab, Elle Decor and Curbed. She lives in Brooklyn and walks in Brooklyn Bridge Park almost every day.  You can follow her on Instagram @langealexandra and on Twitter @LangeAlexandra. And you can purchase a copy of Meet Me by the Fountain here! Bloomsbury Publishing is on Instagram @bloomsburypublishing and on Twitter @BloomsburyPub. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from past Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn; we'll be updating it soon with more releases! Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our editor is Andrew Carson. Production support from Julie Carrillo, Chris McClure, and Erin McKeon. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Headshot credit for Alexandra: Mark Wickens

Malls are an important gathering place for people of all ages to shop, eat, be entertained, walk, and enjoy the controlled temperature. This hour, the history of malls in America, their unique design, and a look ahead to the future of those spaces, now that there are dead malls all over the country. Plus: the art of curating mall music. GUESTS: Michael Bise: A former Gap employee who runs the Gap In-Store Playlists blog Alexandra Lange: Author of Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall Erik Pierson: Videographer of the YouTube channel Retail Archeology The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode! Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe, Ray Hardman, Greg Hill, Tucker Ives, Jonathan McNicol, Cat Pastor, Patrick Skahill, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, which originally aired July 21, 2022.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by design critic Alexandra Lange to talk about her book Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall on the evolution of shopping malls in America. In the Plus segment: How online shopping has affected malls.   Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Thanks Avast.com! Learn more about Avast One at Avast.com If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you'll be supporting the work we do here on Slate Money. Sign up now at slate.com/moneyplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by design critic Alexandra Lange to talk about her book Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall on the evolution of shopping malls in America. In the Plus segment: How online shopping has affected malls.   Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Thanks Avast.com! Learn more about Avast One at Avast.com If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you'll be supporting the work we do here on Slate Money. Sign up now at slate.com/moneyplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by design critic Alexandra Lange to talk about her book Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall on the evolution of shopping malls in America. In the Plus segment: How online shopping has affected malls.   Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Thanks Avast.com! Learn more about Avast One at Avast.com If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you'll be supporting the work we do here on Slate Money. Sign up now at slate.com/moneyplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by design critic Alexandra Lange to talk about her book Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall on the evolution of shopping malls in America. In the Plus segment: How online shopping has affected malls.   Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Thanks Avast.com! Learn more about Avast One at Avast.com If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you'll be supporting the work we do here on Slate Money. Sign up now at slate.com/moneyplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Retail Apocalypse is upon us, or so we're told: the US has gone from 2,500 malls in the 1980s to about 700 today, and as anchors fold even more are expected to close in years to come. Today I'm joined by guest Alexandra Lange, architectural critic and author of the new book "Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall", to discuss the amazing life and death of the shopping mall. We'll examine how the mall serves as a nostalgic touchstone for so many, their problematic reinforcement of structural inequality, the phenomenon of dead malls, and what might lie in store for shuttered malls in the future! Show Notes and Links Buy Alexandra's new book, "Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abandonedamerica/support

Grab your velcro wallet, throw on that Benneton rugby and lace up those Sperrys. We are heading back to the mall with an all new introduction to one of our most popular episodes to date, “Orange Julius Wishes & Karmelkorn Dreams.” Other than the roller rink, was there a better place to hang out during our GenX childhoods than the mall in the 1970s and 1980s? Join us for our fun conversation all about our MALL MEMORIES! From Orange Julius (just WHAT is in that, really?) to Spencer's Gifts (so terrifyingly naughty!) to the T-Shirt Shack (inhaaaale), to the coveted job at the mall movie theater — we cover it all, as well as share some great mall stories from our society members! C'mon, everybody! Let's go to the mall!Links to the people, places and things we talk about in this episode.99% Invisible podcast episode “Meet Us by the Fountain”“Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall” by Alexandra Lange. Purchase at Barnes and Nobel or Bookshop.org“The Mall” a novel by Megan McCafferty. Purchase at Barnes and Noble or Bookshop.orgFollow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTokSupport the PCPS by becoming a patron on Patreon. Check out all of the extra perks you'll get here.For a weekly dose of fun from the PCPS subscribe to The Weekly Reader here.

For many kids, a return to the hallowed halls of learning is preceded by a visit to the crowded aisles of their local shopping mall  — to pick up school supplies and new clothes. Malls are much more than just pop culture nostalgia or suburban cringe — according to Alexandra Lange. In her new book, “Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall,” the architecture and design critic says malls show us how these places of commerce have become critical for communities, despite long-standing tensions on their role and responsibility to the city they belong to, and the shoppers in their halls.

Stora schabrak till byggnader utanför stadskärnan, skapade för shopping och inte mycket mer. Köpcentrumen har fått utstå både spott och spe. Men har också bidragit till såväl kultur som klädstilar. Egyptierna har pyramider, kineserna har en stor mur, britter har felfria gräsmattor, tyskar har slott, holländare har kanaler, italienare har stora kyrkor. Och amerikaner har köpcentrum. Med de orden beskrev den amerikanska professorn i historia Kenneth T. Jackson kulturskillnader. Men ofta har just köpcentrum kommit till korta. Men ska de verkligen dissas, så hårt?I veckans Stil beger vi oss in i shoppingcentrets värld. Vi ringer upp författaren Alexandra Lange, vars bok Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall nyligen publicerades, för att prata om ett nytt kulturellt fenomen som köpcentrumet skapade på 1980-talet. Nämligen hur shoppingcentret för vissa artister blev en given konsertlokal. Vi beger oss också till Malmö för att besöka köpcentrumet Entré. Med Sydsvenskan och Helsingborgs Dagblads biträdande kulturchef Julia Svensson diskuterar vi shoppingcentret som byggdes med storslagna ambitioner om att bli en motor för en hel stadsdel. Men som istället kom att kallas för sorgebarn och fiasko.Dessutom tittar vi närmare på köpcentrumets betydelse som spelplats i film och tv-serier. Speciellt för amerikanska ungdomsfilmer var de här miljöerna länge viktiga, berättar SVT:s film- och tv-kritiker Lydia Farran Lee.Veckans gäst är Ola Andersson, arkitekt som även skriver om stadsplanering och arkitektur.

“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

Our guest this week is Alexandra Lange, famed architecture and design critic, and author of the brand new best-seller Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall. In a wide-ranging interview we get Alexandra's perspectives on the history and cultural significant of shopping malls. We dig into the fascinating story of Victor Gruen and how his design ideas shaped the evolution of regional malls for decades. Then we explore how malls began to lose their relevance, particularly as department stores increasingly found themselves stuck in the boring middle. Lastly wonder what's next for malls and what it might take for them to have a remarkable future.But first we give our hot-takes on the latest retail news, including shaky earnings reports from several wobbly unicorns: Warby Parker, Allbirds and The Real Real, contrasting their performance with Yeti's wholesale first growth strategy. We also discuss Signet's fire sale priced acquisition of one of the OG's of DTC, Blue Nile, before wrapping up with Bed, Bath & Beyond's decision to bail on one of its new private brands ("Wild Sage") after its rookie season.GroceryShop discount offer:Valid for Retailers and Brands only, use code RBR1950  to access our special rate / ticket price is $US1950.  Offer code  expires 9/22/22.Past podcast episodes of note:Understanding Warby Parker and Customer-Based Valuation with Dan McCarthyThe Great Wholesale v. DTC Debate with Simeon Siegel About AlexandraAlexandra Lange is a design critic. Her essays, reviews and profiles have appeared in numerous design publications including Architect, Harvard Design Magazine, and Metropolis, as well as in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, and the New York Times. She is a columnist for Bloomberg CityLab, and has been a featured writer at Design Observer, an opinion columnist at Dezeen, and the architecture critic for Curbed.Her latest book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall, was published by Bloomsbury USA in June 2022.Her previous book, The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids was published by Bloomsbury USA in 2018. Research for the book was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Design of Childhood was named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Urban Planning Books of 2018 and has been an assigned text in art and architecture studios at ASU, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, UPenn, VCU and Yale.Alexandra is also the author of Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012), a primer on how to read and write architecture criticism, as well as the e-book The Dot-Com City: Silicon Valley Urbanism (Strelka, 2012), which considers the message of the physical spaces of Facebook, Google, and Apple.In 2021, Alexandra became editorial advisor to the podcast New Angle: Voice, produced by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. The podcast showcases the work of pioneering women of American architecture, and the first five-episode season featured Julia Morgan, Natalie de Blois, Helen Fong, Norma Sklarek and Florence Knoll. Several episodes were broadcast on 99 Percent Invisible.Alexandra co-wrote and co-produced “Masters of Modern Design: The Art of the Japanese American Experience,” a 2019 KCET Artbound documentary on Japanese American designers in the postwar era, which was based on one of her Curbed columns. “Masters of Modern Design” won a 2020 LA Area Emmy Award.Radio and podcast appearances include NPR Weekend Edition and Marketplace, as well as Studio 360, 99 Percent Invisible, Decoder Ring, The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC and Think on KERA. Alexandra has lectured widely at universities, museums and design conferences on topics ranging from the history of women architecture critics to the opulent modernism of Alexander Girard to the best use of social media by architects. She has also taught design criticism at New York University and the School of Visual Arts.Alexandra was a 2014 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She won a 2018 New York Press Club Award for Feature Reporting – Internet for her Curbed story, “No Loitering, No Skateboarding, No Baggy Pants,” on teens and public space. In 2019, she was awarded a Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary by AIGA. In 2020, Alexandra was the recipient of the Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award from AIA New York, given to architectural journalists. She was also awarded the 2020 BRIO Prize by the eponymous Swedish toy company, which honors researchers and non-profits focused on creating a better world through play.Alexandra has long been interested in the creation of modern domestic life, a theme running through Design Research: The Store that Brought Modern Living to American Homes (Chronicle, 2010), which she co-authored with Jane Thompson, as well as her contributions to Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America (Yale, 2018), Alexander Girard: A Designer's Universe (Vitra, 2016), Formica Forever (Metropolis, 2013), and Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future (Yale, 2006). Her latest contributions on the topic include a chapter on design for children in Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890 – 1980 (Prestel, 2020) and the foreword to Designing Motherhood (MIT Press, 2021). Her 2005 dissertation, “Tower Typewriter and Trademark: Architects, Designers and the Corporate Utopia, 1956-1964,” discussed the design programs and design networks at postwar American corporations. About UsSteve Dennis is an advisor, keynote speaker and author on strategic growth and business innovation. You can learn more about Steve on his       website.    The expanded and revised edition of his bestselling book  Remarkable Retail: How To Win & Keep Customers in the Age of Disruption is now available at  Amazon or just about anywhere else books are sold. Steve regularly shares his insights in his role as a      Forbes senior contributor and on       Twitter and       LinkedIn. You can also check out his speaker "sizzle" reel      here.Michael LeBlanc  is the Founder & President of M.E. 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In The Design of Childhood, acclaimed writer, architecture critic, and historian Alexandra Lange uncovered the histories of toys, classrooms, and playgrounds. Lange now turns her sharp eye to another subject we thought we knew. Chronicling the invention of the mall by postwar architects and merchants, Lange reveals how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. Meet Me By the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Bloomsbury, 2022) is Lange's perceptive account of how these shopping centers became strange and rich with contradiction. In it, Lange describes America's malls as places of freedom and exclusion—but also as places of undeniable community, and rampant consumerism.Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as shopping malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce. In their prime, they proved a powerful draw for creative thinkers such as Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, and George Romero, who understood the mall's appeal as critics and consumers. Yet today, amid the aftershocks of financial crises and a global pandemic, as well as the rise of online retail, the dystopian husk of an abandoned shopping center has become one of our era's defining images. Conventional wisdom holds that the mall is dead. But what was the mall, anyway? And have rumors of its demise been greatly exaggerated?Here's Episode 40: The Big Table conversation with architecture critic, writer, and historian Alexandra Lange, discussing Meet My by the Fountain.Reading by Alexandra LangeMusic by OMD

Architecture critic and author, Alexandra Lange joins us today to talk about her latest book, Meet Me By The Fountain: An Inside History Of The Mall. As it's title suggests, Meet Me By The Fountain explores the beginnings and development of the American shopping mall, but rewards our nostalgic gaze with a fascinating look at the mall as architectural challenge and sociological phenomenon. As a response to the changing relationships to consumerism and urban space in the post-World War II period, the shopping mall soared in popularity for Americans in large part because it offered at once a space for consumerist escape and nearly complete environmental and social control. It shaped its won social culture, shot through with all of the prejudices of the world outside but with the promise of experiential transformation. In Meet Me By The Fountain, the shopping mall emerges as a uniquely postmodern public space grounded in the perennial human longing for social connection, and the nostalgia we feel for that space in the present demonstrates its ongoing appeal, even in the present when it is considered to be, if not dead, dying an all-but certain death. Also, Elvia Wilk, author of the essay collection Death By Landscape, returns to recommend both Marlen Haushofer's 1963 novel The Wall (German: Die Wand) and Ned Beauman's new novel Venomous Lumpsucker.

Architecture critic and author, Alexandra Lange joins us today to talk about her latest book, Meet Me By The Fountain: An Inside History Of The Mall. As it's title suggests, Meet Me By The Fountain explores the beginnings and development of the American shopping mall, but rewards our nostalgic gaze with a fascinating look at the mall as architectural challenge and sociological phenomenon. As a response to the changing relationships to consumerism and urban space in the post-World War II period, the shopping mall soared in popularity for Americans in large part because it offered at once a space for consumerist escape and nearly complete environmental and social control. It shaped its won social culture, shot through with all of the prejudices of the world outside but with the promise of experiential transformation. In Meet Me By The Fountain, the shopping mall emerges as a uniquely postmodern public space grounded in the perennial human longing for social connection, and the nostalgia we feel for that space in the present demonstrates its ongoing appeal, even in the present when it is considered to be, if not dead, dying an all-but certain death. Also, Elvia Wilk, author of the essay collection Death By Landscape, returns to recommend both Marlen Haushofer's 1963 novel The Wall (German: Die Wand) and Ned Beauman's new novel Venomous Lumpsucker.

Minnesota is a big shaper of mall culture. Southdale was the first indoor mall in the country when it opened in Edina in 1956. Over the next decades, malls spread across suburbia, pulling crowds of shoppers from downtowns. Then, 30 years ago the Mall of America set the stage for malls as entertainment complexes when it opened on Aug. 11, 1992, with an amusement park surrounded by hundreds of stores.  Now the COVID-19 pandemic and the rush to online shopping is changing malls yet again.  Courtesy of Alexandra Lange. Alexandra Lange's book “Meet me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall.” MPR News host Angela Davis talks with a Mall of America vice president and a design critic about the evolution of mall culture. Guests:  Alexandra Lange is a design critic and author of the new book “Meet me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall.” Her previous book was ”The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids.”  Jill Renslow is executive vice president of business development and marketing at the Mall of America. She started working at the mall as an events intern in 1997, when the Mall was marking its fifth anniversary. And, she never left. One of her big projects was overseeing the transformation of Camp Snoopy theme park into Nickelodeon Universe. Subscribe to the MPR News with Angela Davis podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or RSS. Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.

Wasn't e-commerce supposed to kill malls? Or the recession? Or COVID? Why do those havens for Auntie Anne's Pretzels and Build-a-Bear Workshop survive? City Cast architecture contributor Allyn West and Alexandra Lange, author of “Meet Me By the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall,” join host Lisa Gray to talk about ice rinks, mall walkers and food courts. More on Alexandra Lang's book here Want more Houston news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter here We're also on Twitter! Follow us at @CityCastHouston Not on social media? Then leave us a voicemail or text us at +1 713-489-6972 with your thoughts!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we're joined by architecture writer and journalist Alexandra Lange to talk about her book: Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall. We chat about the evolution of the mall, equity and legal implications, and of course pop culture.   Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! 

Alexandra Lange, architecture critic and the author of Meet Me By the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022), looks at the history of the shopping mall as a guide for transforming them for the future.

Malls are an important gathering place for people of all ages to shop, eat, be entertained, walk, and enjoy the controlled temperature. This hour, we look back at the history of malls in America, discuss their unique design, and look ahead to the future of those spaces, now that there are dead malls all over the country. Finally, we'll learn about the art of curating mall music. GUESTS:  Alexandra Lange: Architecture and design critic, author or The Design of Childhood, whose new book is Meet Me By the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall Erik Pierson: Videographer of the YouTube channel “Retail Archeology” Michael Bise: Former Gap employee who runs a blog where he collects Gap music playlists Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Like many American cities, Denver and its adjoining suburbs have had moments defined by malls. From Cinderella City to Villa Italia, Buckingham Square to Westminster, malls have come and gone, but created indelible memories for many Denverites. These intergenerational spaces played host to first jobs, first dates, and for many teens, first parent-free experiences in the public realm. Today on the show, host Bree Davies talks with author and architecture critic Alexandra Lange about her new book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall. Together, they trace the architectural and social history of Denver through the lens of a built environment meant for shopping — but remembered for so much more. Bree and Alexandra talked about beautiful images of dying malls — like these photos from Seph Lawless. (Pssst… today's blooper comes courtesy of these amazing in-store tapes from KMart that someone kindly posted to the Interwebz. Also, Bree recommends the album Vacant Places by Hantasi if you really want to immerse yourself in the mall's aural aesthetic.) Want more Denver metro mall history? Read and subscribe to the City Cast Denver newsletter: https://denver.citycast.fm/newsletter/ Shout out your fave Denver metro mall of yore on Twitter: @citycastdenver Leave us a voicemail with your name and neighborhood, and you might hear it on the show: (720) 500-5418‬ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya. Trust by Hernan Diaz. City on Fire by Don Winslow. Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis. The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler by Kathryn S. Olmsted. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange. The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen. Play with GPT-3 yourself here. Finding out whether GPT-3 can take the SAT. VidCon Returns as Chill Falls on Creator Economy. Elon Musk said he wants Twitter to become the WeChat of the western world in his first meeting with employees. When Elon met Twitter. Introducing: Notes We're testing a way to write longer on Twitter. SpaceX employees say Elon Musk is an 'embarrassment' as he waffles on work-from-home. Microsoft, Meta, and others are founding a metaverse open standards group (no Apple or Roblox). 'Snow Crash' Author Neal Stephenson Is Building a 'Free Metaverse' Called Lamina1. Meta is launching a digital clothing store where you can purchase outfits for your avatar. How Thom Browne became 2022's hottest red carpet commodity. Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire. Amazon drones are coming to town. Some locals want to shoot them. NPR & Edison Research: Smart Speaker Ownership Reaches 35% of Americans. Leo's day with his voice assistant. Here Comes the Sun—to End Civilization. Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall Are Said to Be Divorcing. Bill Nye the Married Guy! "Science Guy" star tied the knot last month. Researcher Hacks Into Backend for Network of Smart Jacuzzis. Leaded aviation gasoline is poisoning a new generation. Most popular websites for news in the world: Monthly top 50 listing. Proof By Seth Abramson. SpaceX: Starlink Risks Becoming 'Unusable' If Dish Gets 12GHz Spectrum. Google News (now 20 years old) gets a redesign. Google Password Manager now has an Android home screen shortcut. Chrome 103 replaces the built-in password list with Android's default manager. Google Password Manager starts offering on-device encryption on Android, iOS, and Chrome. Google TV Profiles have arrived, and will allow each user to have their own personalized experience. Google Maps dark mode appears broken on Android Auto for some after recent updates. Why America Will Lose Semiconductors. Picks: Stacey - KitchenAid Shave Ice Attachment Jeff - TikTok Italian sandwich guy Ant - Pro Mist Filter from Tiffen Ant - Moment's Cine Bloom Filter Ant - New Updates to Premiere Pro Ant - Capture One Update Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: newrelic.com/twig policygenius.com/twig Blueland.com/TWIG

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya. Trust by Hernan Diaz. City on Fire by Don Winslow. Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis. The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler by Kathryn S. Olmsted. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange. The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen. Play with GPT-3 yourself here. Finding out whether GPT-3 can take the SAT. VidCon Returns as Chill Falls on Creator Economy. Elon Musk said he wants Twitter to become the WeChat of the western world in his first meeting with employees. When Elon met Twitter. Introducing: Notes We're testing a way to write longer on Twitter. SpaceX employees say Elon Musk is an 'embarrassment' as he waffles on work-from-home. Microsoft, Meta, and others are founding a metaverse open standards group (no Apple or Roblox). 'Snow Crash' Author Neal Stephenson Is Building a 'Free Metaverse' Called Lamina1. Meta is launching a digital clothing store where you can purchase outfits for your avatar. How Thom Browne became 2022's hottest red carpet commodity. Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire. Amazon drones are coming to town. Some locals want to shoot them. NPR & Edison Research: Smart Speaker Ownership Reaches 35% of Americans. Leo's day with his voice assistant. Here Comes the Sun—to End Civilization. Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall Are Said to Be Divorcing. Bill Nye the Married Guy! "Science Guy" star tied the knot last month. Researcher Hacks Into Backend for Network of Smart Jacuzzis. Leaded aviation gasoline is poisoning a new generation. Most popular websites for news in the world: Monthly top 50 listing. Proof By Seth Abramson. SpaceX: Starlink Risks Becoming 'Unusable' If Dish Gets 12GHz Spectrum. Google News (now 20 years old) gets a redesign. Google Password Manager now has an Android home screen shortcut. Chrome 103 replaces the built-in password list with Android's default manager. Google Password Manager starts offering on-device encryption on Android, iOS, and Chrome. Google TV Profiles have arrived, and will allow each user to have their own personalized experience. Google Maps dark mode appears broken on Android Auto for some after recent updates. Why America Will Lose Semiconductors. Picks: Stacey - KitchenAid Shave Ice Attachment Jeff - TikTok Italian sandwich guy Ant - Pro Mist Filter from Tiffen Ant - Moment's Cine Bloom Filter Ant - New Updates to Premiere Pro Ant - Capture One Update Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: newrelic.com/twig policygenius.com/twig Blueland.com/TWIG

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya. Trust by Hernan Diaz. City on Fire by Don Winslow. Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis. The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler by Kathryn S. Olmsted. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange. The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen. Play with GPT-3 yourself here. Finding out whether GPT-3 can take the SAT. VidCon Returns as Chill Falls on Creator Economy. Elon Musk said he wants Twitter to become the WeChat of the western world in his first meeting with employees. When Elon met Twitter. Introducing: Notes We're testing a way to write longer on Twitter. SpaceX employees say Elon Musk is an 'embarrassment' as he waffles on work-from-home. Microsoft, Meta, and others are founding a metaverse open standards group (no Apple or Roblox). 'Snow Crash' Author Neal Stephenson Is Building a 'Free Metaverse' Called Lamina1. Meta is launching a digital clothing store where you can purchase outfits for your avatar. How Thom Browne became 2022's hottest red carpet commodity. Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire. Amazon drones are coming to town. Some locals want to shoot them. NPR & Edison Research: Smart Speaker Ownership Reaches 35% of Americans. Leo's day with his voice assistant. Here Comes the Sun—to End Civilization. Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall Are Said to Be Divorcing. Bill Nye the Married Guy! "Science Guy" star tied the knot last month. Researcher Hacks Into Backend for Network of Smart Jacuzzis. Leaded aviation gasoline is poisoning a new generation. Most popular websites for news in the world: Monthly top 50 listing. Proof By Seth Abramson. SpaceX: Starlink Risks Becoming 'Unusable' If Dish Gets 12GHz Spectrum. Google News (now 20 years old) gets a redesign. Google Password Manager now has an Android home screen shortcut. Chrome 103 replaces the built-in password list with Android's default manager. Google Password Manager starts offering on-device encryption on Android, iOS, and Chrome. Google TV Profiles have arrived, and will allow each user to have their own personalized experience. Google Maps dark mode appears broken on Android Auto for some after recent updates. Why America Will Lose Semiconductors. Picks: Stacey - KitchenAid Shave Ice Attachment Jeff - TikTok Italian sandwich guy Ant - Pro Mist Filter from Tiffen Ant - Moment's Cine Bloom Filter Ant - New Updates to Premiere Pro Ant - Capture One Update Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: newrelic.com/twig policygenius.com/twig Blueland.com/TWIG

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya. Trust by Hernan Diaz. City on Fire by Don Winslow. Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis. The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler by Kathryn S. Olmsted. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange. The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen. Play with GPT-3 yourself here. Finding out whether GPT-3 can take the SAT. VidCon Returns as Chill Falls on Creator Economy. Elon Musk said he wants Twitter to become the WeChat of the western world in his first meeting with employees. When Elon met Twitter. Introducing: Notes We're testing a way to write longer on Twitter. SpaceX employees say Elon Musk is an 'embarrassment' as he waffles on work-from-home. Microsoft, Meta, and others are founding a metaverse open standards group (no Apple or Roblox). 'Snow Crash' Author Neal Stephenson Is Building a 'Free Metaverse' Called Lamina1. Meta is launching a digital clothing store where you can purchase outfits for your avatar. How Thom Browne became 2022's hottest red carpet commodity. Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire. Amazon drones are coming to town. Some locals want to shoot them. NPR & Edison Research: Smart Speaker Ownership Reaches 35% of Americans. Leo's day with his voice assistant. Here Comes the Sun—to End Civilization. Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall Are Said to Be Divorcing. Bill Nye the Married Guy! "Science Guy" star tied the knot last month. Researcher Hacks Into Backend for Network of Smart Jacuzzis. Leaded aviation gasoline is poisoning a new generation. Most popular websites for news in the world: Monthly top 50 listing. Proof By Seth Abramson. SpaceX: Starlink Risks Becoming 'Unusable' If Dish Gets 12GHz Spectrum. Google News (now 20 years old) gets a redesign. Google Password Manager now has an Android home screen shortcut. Chrome 103 replaces the built-in password list with Android's default manager. Google Password Manager starts offering on-device encryption on Android, iOS, and Chrome. Google TV Profiles have arrived, and will allow each user to have their own personalized experience. Google Maps dark mode appears broken on Android Auto for some after recent updates. Why America Will Lose Semiconductors. Picks: Stacey - KitchenAid Shave Ice Attachment Jeff - TikTok Italian sandwich guy Ant - Pro Mist Filter from Tiffen Ant - Moment's Cine Bloom Filter Ant - New Updates to Premiere Pro Ant - Capture One Update Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: newrelic.com/twig policygenius.com/twig Blueland.com/TWIG

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya. Trust by Hernan Diaz. City on Fire by Don Winslow. Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis. The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler by Kathryn S. Olmsted. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange. The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen. Play with GPT-3 yourself here. Finding out whether GPT-3 can take the SAT. VidCon Returns as Chill Falls on Creator Economy. Elon Musk said he wants Twitter to become the WeChat of the western world in his first meeting with employees. When Elon met Twitter. Introducing: Notes We're testing a way to write longer on Twitter. SpaceX employees say Elon Musk is an 'embarrassment' as he waffles on work-from-home. Microsoft, Meta, and others are founding a metaverse open standards group (no Apple or Roblox). 'Snow Crash' Author Neal Stephenson Is Building a 'Free Metaverse' Called Lamina1. Meta is launching a digital clothing store where you can purchase outfits for your avatar. How Thom Browne became 2022's hottest red carpet commodity. Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire. Amazon drones are coming to town. Some locals want to shoot them. NPR & Edison Research: Smart Speaker Ownership Reaches 35% of Americans. Leo's day with his voice assistant. Here Comes the Sun—to End Civilization. Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall Are Said to Be Divorcing. Bill Nye the Married Guy! "Science Guy" star tied the knot last month. Researcher Hacks Into Backend for Network of Smart Jacuzzis. Leaded aviation gasoline is poisoning a new generation. Most popular websites for news in the world: Monthly top 50 listing. Proof By Seth Abramson. SpaceX: Starlink Risks Becoming 'Unusable' If Dish Gets 12GHz Spectrum. Google News (now 20 years old) gets a redesign. Google Password Manager now has an Android home screen shortcut. Chrome 103 replaces the built-in password list with Android's default manager. Google Password Manager starts offering on-device encryption on Android, iOS, and Chrome. Google TV Profiles have arrived, and will allow each user to have their own personalized experience. Google Maps dark mode appears broken on Android Auto for some after recent updates. Why America Will Lose Semiconductors. Picks: Stacey - KitchenAid Shave Ice Attachment Jeff - TikTok Italian sandwich guy Ant - Pro Mist Filter from Tiffen Ant - Moment's Cine Bloom Filter Ant - New Updates to Premiere Pro Ant - Capture One Update Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: newrelic.com/twig policygenius.com/twig Blueland.com/TWIG

Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce, the agora of the suburbs. In their prime, they proved a powerful draw for creative thinkers such as Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, and George Romero, who understood the mall's appeal as both critics and consumers. Yet today, amid the aftershocks of financial crises and a global pandemic, as well as the rise of online retail, the dystopian husk of an abandoned shopping center has become one of our era's defining images. Conventional wisdom holds that the mall is dead. But what was the mall, really? And have rumors of its demise been greatly exaggerated?In her acclaimed The Design of Childhood, Alexandra Lange uncovered the histories of toys, classrooms, and playgrounds. She now turns her sharp eye to another subject we only think we know. She chronicles postwar architects' and merchants' invention of the mall, revealing how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. In Lange's perceptive account, the mall becomes newly strange and rich with contradiction: Malls are environments of both freedom and exclusion--of consumerism, but also of community. Meet Me by the Fountain is a highly entertaining and evocative promenade through the mall's story of rise, fall, and ongoing reinvention, for readers of any generation.Support an independent bookseller buy the book here:  https://wellingtonsquarebooks.indiecommerce.com/book/9781635576023

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya. Trust by Hernan Diaz. City on Fire by Don Winslow. Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis. The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler by Kathryn S. Olmsted. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange. The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen. Play with GPT-3 yourself here. Finding out whether GPT-3 can take the SAT. VidCon Returns as Chill Falls on Creator Economy. Elon Musk said he wants Twitter to become the WeChat of the western world in his first meeting with employees. When Elon met Twitter. Introducing: Notes We're testing a way to write longer on Twitter. SpaceX employees say Elon Musk is an 'embarrassment' as he waffles on work-from-home. Microsoft, Meta, and others are founding a metaverse open standards group (no Apple or Roblox). 'Snow Crash' Author Neal Stephenson Is Building a 'Free Metaverse' Called Lamina1. Meta is launching a digital clothing store where you can purchase outfits for your avatar. How Thom Browne became 2022's hottest red carpet commodity. Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire. Amazon drones are coming to town. Some locals want to shoot them. NPR & Edison Research: Smart Speaker Ownership Reaches 35% of Americans. Leo's day with his voice assistant. Here Comes the Sun—to End Civilization. Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall Are Said to Be Divorcing. Bill Nye the Married Guy! "Science Guy" star tied the knot last month. Researcher Hacks Into Backend for Network of Smart Jacuzzis. Leaded aviation gasoline is poisoning a new generation. Most popular websites for news in the world: Monthly top 50 listing. Proof By Seth Abramson. SpaceX: Starlink Risks Becoming 'Unusable' If Dish Gets 12GHz Spectrum. Google News (now 20 years old) gets a redesign. Google Password Manager now has an Android home screen shortcut. Chrome 103 replaces the built-in password list with Android's default manager. Google Password Manager starts offering on-device encryption on Android, iOS, and Chrome. Google TV Profiles have arrived, and will allow each user to have their own personalized experience. Google Maps dark mode appears broken on Android Auto for some after recent updates. Why America Will Lose Semiconductors. Picks: Stacey - KitchenAid Shave Ice Attachment Jeff - TikTok Italian sandwich guy Ant - Pro Mist Filter from Tiffen Ant - Moment's Cine Bloom Filter Ant - New Updates to Premiere Pro Ant - Capture One Update Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: newrelic.com/twig policygenius.com/twig Blueland.com/TWIG

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya. Trust by Hernan Diaz. City on Fire by Don Winslow. Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis. The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler by Kathryn S. Olmsted. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange. The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen. Play with GPT-3 yourself here. Finding out whether GPT-3 can take the SAT. VidCon Returns as Chill Falls on Creator Economy. Elon Musk said he wants Twitter to become the WeChat of the western world in his first meeting with employees. When Elon met Twitter. Introducing: Notes We're testing a way to write longer on Twitter. SpaceX employees say Elon Musk is an 'embarrassment' as he waffles on work-from-home. Microsoft, Meta, and others are founding a metaverse open standards group (no Apple or Roblox). 'Snow Crash' Author Neal Stephenson Is Building a 'Free Metaverse' Called Lamina1. Meta is launching a digital clothing store where you can purchase outfits for your avatar. How Thom Browne became 2022's hottest red carpet commodity. Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire. Amazon drones are coming to town. Some locals want to shoot them. NPR & Edison Research: Smart Speaker Ownership Reaches 35% of Americans. Leo's day with his voice assistant. Here Comes the Sun—to End Civilization. Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall Are Said to Be Divorcing. Bill Nye the Married Guy! "Science Guy" star tied the knot last month. Researcher Hacks Into Backend for Network of Smart Jacuzzis. Leaded aviation gasoline is poisoning a new generation. Most popular websites for news in the world: Monthly top 50 listing. Proof By Seth Abramson. SpaceX: Starlink Risks Becoming 'Unusable' If Dish Gets 12GHz Spectrum. Google News (now 20 years old) gets a redesign. Google Password Manager now has an Android home screen shortcut. Chrome 103 replaces the built-in password list with Android's default manager. Google Password Manager starts offering on-device encryption on Android, iOS, and Chrome. Google TV Profiles have arrived, and will allow each user to have their own personalized experience. Google Maps dark mode appears broken on Android Auto for some after recent updates. Why America Will Lose Semiconductors. Picks: Stacey - KitchenAid Shave Ice Attachment Jeff - TikTok Italian sandwich guy Ant - Pro Mist Filter from Tiffen Ant - Moment's Cine Bloom Filter Ant - New Updates to Premiere Pro Ant - Capture One Update Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: newrelic.com/twig policygenius.com/twig Blueland.com/TWIG

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya. Trust by Hernan Diaz. City on Fire by Don Winslow. Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis. The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler by Kathryn S. Olmsted. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange. The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen. Play with GPT-3 yourself here. Finding out whether GPT-3 can take the SAT. VidCon Returns as Chill Falls on Creator Economy. Elon Musk said he wants Twitter to become the WeChat of the western world in his first meeting with employees. When Elon met Twitter. Introducing: Notes We're testing a way to write longer on Twitter. SpaceX employees say Elon Musk is an 'embarrassment' as he waffles on work-from-home. Microsoft, Meta, and others are founding a metaverse open standards group (no Apple or Roblox). 'Snow Crash' Author Neal Stephenson Is Building a 'Free Metaverse' Called Lamina1. Meta is launching a digital clothing store where you can purchase outfits for your avatar. How Thom Browne became 2022's hottest red carpet commodity. Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire. Amazon drones are coming to town. Some locals want to shoot them. NPR & Edison Research: Smart Speaker Ownership Reaches 35% of Americans. Leo's day with his voice assistant. Here Comes the Sun—to End Civilization. Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall Are Said to Be Divorcing. Bill Nye the Married Guy! "Science Guy" star tied the knot last month. Researcher Hacks Into Backend for Network of Smart Jacuzzis. Leaded aviation gasoline is poisoning a new generation. Most popular websites for news in the world: Monthly top 50 listing. Proof By Seth Abramson. SpaceX: Starlink Risks Becoming 'Unusable' If Dish Gets 12GHz Spectrum. Google News (now 20 years old) gets a redesign. Google Password Manager now has an Android home screen shortcut. Chrome 103 replaces the built-in password list with Android's default manager. Google Password Manager starts offering on-device encryption on Android, iOS, and Chrome. Google TV Profiles have arrived, and will allow each user to have their own personalized experience. Google Maps dark mode appears broken on Android Auto for some after recent updates. Why America Will Lose Semiconductors. Picks: Stacey - KitchenAid Shave Ice Attachment Jeff - TikTok Italian sandwich guy Ant - Pro Mist Filter from Tiffen Ant - Moment's Cine Bloom Filter Ant - New Updates to Premiere Pro Ant - Capture One Update Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: newrelic.com/twig policygenius.com/twig Blueland.com/TWIG

Alexandra Lange is a design critic whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and many other publications. Her new book is Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall. “I really like to write about things that I can hold and experience. I'm not that interested in biography, but I am very interested in the biography of an object. ... Like I feel about the objects, I think, how most people feel about people. So what I'm always trying to do is communicate that enthusiasm and that understanding to my reader, because these objects really have a lot of speaking to do.” Show notes: @LangeAlexandra alexandralange.net  Lange on Longform 00:00 Lange's Design Observer archive 00:00 Lange's Curbed archive 00:00 Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Bloomsbury • 2022) 15:00 "Malls and the Future of American Retail" (Curbed • Feb 2018) 17:00 "Owings Mills Mall in 1986" (YouTube) 21:00 Lange's New York Magazine archive 21:00 Lange's Tumblr 26:00 Witold Rybczynski's Architect Magazine archive 30:00 The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids (Bloomsbury • 2018) 35:00 New Angle: Voice (Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The history and future of the design of the American shopping mall. Plus, a new test that can more accurately assess your immunity to COVID-19. And Coca-Cola is releasing a new Jack & Coke canned cocktail. Meanwhile, fans have created a “healthy Coke” hack, which I tried out in the Cool Stuff Ride Home's first official taste test.Sponsors:I Am Bio, Subscribe at bio.org/podcastCalm, Get 40% off a Calm Premium Subscription calm.com/coolstuffLinks:Get In. We're Going to Save the Mall. (NY Times)A History of Mall Walking (Bloomberg)Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra LangeTwo New Permanent Meow Wolf “Portals” Come to Texas (Glasstire)A New Test Can Help Reveal If You're Immune to COVID-19 (TIME)Jack Daniels and Coca-Cola Are Putting a Classic Cocktail in a Can (Thrillist)'A refreshing salad drink': does balsamic vinegar and fizzy water really taste like healthy Coke? (The Guardian)Jackson Bird on TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.