Forget malls. How 90s of you. Today’s temples to shopping aggregation are called “lifestyle centers” (we kiddeth thee not). “While these new malls may appear to be public space, they’re not public at all—at least if you want to do anything but shop. They represent a bait-and-switch routine on the part of developers, one that exchanges the public realm for the commercial one. They’re also enormously successful—by the most recent count, there are about 130 lifestyle centers scattered around the country.”