Hendrik de Villiers: The Social Importance of Shopping Malls

Look at shopping malls in a new perspective. It is not anymore only a place to do your shopping. It has gained status as a social phenomenon.

From the early 1980’s a new social phenomenon came to the forefront world wide, the shopping mall. Although the concept of malls was to induce consumerism, inventors of this new concept could never in their wildest dreams visualise the social revolution it would start.