The Latin American Shopping Center: cultural translation, symbolic adaptation, and typological evolution of commercial architecture in Latin American cities
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2018
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Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that effortlessly moves across national and cultural borders in the slipstream of neo-liberal globalization, or should instead be understood as a geographically and temporally bound expression of negotiations between mall developers (representatives of a global logic of capitalist accumulation) on the one hand, and local actors (architects/governments/citizens) on the other. It explores how the shopping centre adapts to new cultural contexts, and questions whether this commercial type has the capacity to disrupt or even amend the conditions that it encounters.
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R. Liliana De Simone. The Latin American Shopping Center: cultural translation, symbolic adaptation, and typological evolution of commercial architecture in Latin American cities. In: Janina Gosseye, Tom Avermaete,editors. Acculturating the Shopping Centre. London: Routledge; 2018. p. 44-88.