Shopping malls

Many polymers are inherently flammable. Furthermore, they often melt, volatilise and emit flammable and toxic vapours. Legislation now dictates the many polymers used in construction, fibres, furniture, advertising signs in shopping malls, must possess combustion resistance. 

The following selection explains the origins and development of the modern shopping mall. 

Today s shopping mall has as its antecedents historical marketplaces, such as Greek agoras, European piazzas, and Asian bazaars. The purpose of these sites, as with the shopping mall, is both economic and social. People go not only to buy and sell wares, but also to be seen, (5) catch up on news, and be part of the human drama. Both the marketplace and its descendant the mall might also contain restaurants, banks, theaters, and professional offices. 

According to the passage, how did Southdale expand the notion of the shopping mall ... 

Choice b may seem attractive at first, but the passage doesn t offer the opinion that the purpose of the shopping mall is important, it simply tells us what the purposes are. 

Krafft, Bruce W. My Day at the Mall. Firearms and Liberty.com. Available online. URL http //www.firearmsandliberty.com (via link). Posted on July 25, 2003. Reports the author s confrontation with security guards after carrying a gun in a shopping mall in what he says was a violation of a new law that does not allow businesses to ban customers or guests from carrying guns. 

Sometimes I imagine myself stuck in a room with Proust s volumes at one end and The Arcades Project at the other. Perhaps I could be happy for the rest of my life in this self-imposed exile. Could you For Benjamin, the enclosed shopping malls of the 19th century were a material replica of a human collective unconscious. Contemplated along with Proust s novels of involuntary memory, we d enter wonderful, qua-quaversal realms of thought and imagination. 

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