Word: malling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surface, this argument has a lot of appeal. People generally like Harvard Square, and do not want to see it razed to build a strip mall. However, within guidelines, franchise operations have the right to exist in the Square. Letting chain stores operate does not have to mean letting in huge McDonald's arches; such signs can be prohibited by the city, as can other ornamentation the community deems offensive...
...number of cars in America doubled from 26 million to 52 million. That boom, along with the highways that supported it, extended the strange and strained realm of suburbia. To absorb this mobility came drive-in theaters, drive-in restaurants, drive-in banks and, most important, the shopping mall--Main Street reconfigured for cars. Society was transfigured: the automobile brought America to a new frontier made up of Tinkertoy communities full of undefined relationships and spaces, with the car itself an extension of living room, playroom, bedroom, with the whole country viewed through the windshield...
...looks to be the future home of a shopping mall, according to Anthony Crayton, a former Boston city councillor...
According to Crayton, the eviction will goforward despite the fact that the BRA does nothave an actual proposal for the replacementshopping mall...
...fire at a hair salon at the Cambridge Galleria Mall led police and firefighters to evacuate the building and block traffic on JFK Street south of Mount Auburn Street...