shopping centre: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	shopping mall • shopping plaza

Photos

Tebrau City: shopping centre

Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Dubai Mall

Indoor amusement park at the Mall of America with colorful fairground rides, roller coaster tracks, cartoon character decorations, and seating areas surrounded by greenery.

People walk and shop inside the ornate Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, with its glass-domed roof, decorative mosaics, and luxury store entrances.

shopping centre in Oranjestad

Interior view of Palac Flora shopping mall in Prague, showing multiple floors with glass railings, shops, and people walking through brightly lit open spaces.

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Topics

macellum regional shopping centre neighbourhood shopping centre retailing chain store fair vending machine mail-order business auction bazaar department store supermarket general store discount store

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Victor Gruen

American architect