She devotes an entire chapter to shopping malls, which “promoted themselves as the new civic centers of booming suburban towns,” as the process of suburbanization shifted the population from urban centers into these new neighborhoods.8 Cohen convincingly argues that there was a direct link between suburbanization, the rising tide of consumerism, and the birth of the shopping mall. She points to the feelings of suburbanites — that there were not enough retail options in their new communities, tha