Why Do All Malls Look the Same?

Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateORIG Subscribe to Origin of Everything! http://bit.ly/originsub Why do all strip malls look the same, even across different states? And what do zoning laws, tax breaks, and a guy from Vienna have to do with it? Written and Hosted By: Danielle Bainbridge Graphics By: Noelle Smith Edited By: Mike Petrow Fact Check: Sarah Edwards Produced By: Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) Works Cited: https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-... http://americanhistory.si.edu/america... http://www.mallhistory.com/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-dying-... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-c... https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/articl... http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.p... https://99percentinvisible.org/episod... https://qz.com/454214/the-father-of-t... https://www.citylab.com/design/2013/0... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20... https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbey... http://articles.latimes.com/1997/nov/... http://www.acrwebsite.org/search/view... http://www.actforlibraries.org/the-hi... https://www.citylab.com/amp/article/3... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-c... https://www.citylab.com/transportatio... http://www.newgeography.com/content/0... http://www.actforlibraries.org/the-hi... http://www.acrwebsite.org/search/view... https://www.forbes.com/sites/bisnow/2... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-c... http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/soc/s... “THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN STRIP MALLS: EVALUATING AND PRESERVING A UNIQUE CULTURAL RESOURCE” by MATTHEW J. MANNING (Thesis Project, University of Georgia) Hanchett, Thomas W. "U.S. Tax Policy and the Shopping-Center Boom of the 1950s and 1960s." The American Historical Review101, no. 4 (1996): 1082-110. doi:10.2307/2169635.    • The rise and fall of the American shopping...      • A brief history of the American shopping mall      • Super Structures - Shopping Malls In Ameri...