How Shopping Malls Are Designed to Make You Spend Money

How Shopping Malls Are Designed to Make You Spend Money



Shopping malls aren’t just places to shop–they’re carefully designed environments built to influence how you think, move, and spend. Michael Wyetzner of Michielli + Wyetzner Architects returns to AD to break down the hidden design strategies behind modern shopping malls using the ‘Gruen Transfer’, escalator placement, skylights, maze-like layouts, and more. From the first enclosed mall in Minnesota to the Mall of America and Las Vegas mega-malls, learn how malls evolved from European public plazas into powerful tools of consumer psychology.



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