Abstract:This article focuses on the impact produced by urban shopping centers and other architectural artifacts of leisure and consumption in its immediate environment. Unlike the current discourse and the media, the author defends the idea that sometimes these objects have a tremendously positive impact on the renewal of contemporary urban space, creating new buildings, improving public space and a substantial increase of existing economic activity.
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