The New Religious Image of Urban America, Second Edition: The Shopping Mall as Ceremonial Center

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgements Grateful acknowledgement is made to the followingpersons for permissionto reproduce pictures, schedules,calendars,etc. Lajuana Grimmett Marketing Director Nordstrom Mall, Salem, Oregon Penelope M. Heath Marketing Assistant LenoxSquare Atlanta, Georgia Marilynn Evert AdverstisingJMarketingManager Tampa Bay Center Tampa, Florida Jan Kline MarketingDirector Gwinnett Place Duluth, Georgia Robert Magell, Jr. MarketingDirector Park City, Lancaster,Pennsylvania Joan McGuire-Coldberg Marketing/Promotion Director White Fint North Bethesda, Maryland Leslie B. Schwabe Marketing Manager White Marsh Baltimore, Maryland Nancy Montgomery Washington Cathedral Washington, D.C. Painton Cowen London, England Steve Pospisil The Rouse Company Columbia, Maryland Abe Zitren Smith Haven Mall Lake Grove, N.Y. Adrianne Frei Pendor Natural Color Pearl River, New York Jo Boyster Marketing Director Crossroads Mall Boulder, Colorado "It's a night on the town. And a day to remember. It's quiet restaurants and theaters. And over 135 exceptional shops and stores. It's fashion. And it's fashionable. It's art shows, flower gardens and pecan reindeer. It's fountains that babble and people that sing. It's the most interesting place ever to get a haircut, mail a letter or service your car. It's monumental sculpture and ample parking. It's in the best location ever. It's Northpark. It's the ultimate . It's the legend. And it's the first place to be for the very last word in shopping." Promotional brochurefor: Northpark Mall Dallas, Texas "Let us, however, note one thing which is of importance to our view; to the degree that the ancient holy places, temples or altars lose their religious efficacy, people discover and apply other geomantic , architectural or iconographicformulas which, in theend, sometimesastonishingly enough, represent the same symbolismof the 'Centre.'" MIRCEA ELIADE Professorof History of Religions Emeritus University of Chicago "Perhaps each generation creates a kind of mythic building type for itself. What the skyscrapers were to New York in the '30s, the market is today. ..the place where the god of thecity has taken up residence for the moment, the place where you take the visiting cousins, the place where, mysteriously, for a time, the Delphic air vibrates." ROBERT CAMPBELL Architecturalcritic for the Boston Globe The New Religious Image of Urban America The Shopping MaU as Ceremonial Center ...