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shopping center  

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  • A shopping center is simply a single building or collection of buildings containing multiple retail units. Strictly speaking this can be either a wholly planned center developed all at once and owned and operated under a single management (e.g., a shopping mall), or a semicohesive shopping area that has evolved over time, such as a town or neighborhood center. [Source: Encyclopedia of Urban Studies; Shopping Center]

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