ABSTRACT

Shopping centre interiors are real spaces and images of space. The shopping centre interior is something of a paradox regarding the public and private. The shopping centre interiors of today resemble those of the covered shopping arcades of Paris in the nineteenth century the last great period of globalisation during which the rise of modern consumer societies took place, together with emergent forms of modern vision. The development of modern vision is inseparable from the process of modernization. The modern city of the nineteenth century became a place of such emergent production, the urban spaces of today's globalising world are perhaps excessively visible spaces for consumption. The modern city became the space for the physical expression of the process of modernization. Sun City is a seminal tract development there marking the first purpose-built, age-restricted senior citizen community in America, now the template for hundreds of others in the Sun Belt states.