- The Grove Arcade, Asheville, NC (photo courtesy of pics4.city-data.com)
Bazaar: a market consisting of a street lined with shops and stalls, especially in the Middle East, where miscellaneous articles are sold.
- Grand Bazaar, Istanbul (photo courtesy of wikipedia)
Community center: a shopping center of 100,000 to 350,000 square feet, typically anchored by a one or two discount department, drug, or home improvement stores; they are commonly open, one-story, with stores arranged in a single strip, L- or U-shape.
- Stevens Creek Central [community] Shopping Center (photo courtesy of hartadvisers.com)
Convenience center: an open shopping center with fewer than half-a-dozen stores offering day-to-day necessities, such as a mini-mart, dry cleaners, wine and beer, video rentals, and the like.
Lifestyle center: typically, an open-air shopping center whose array of retail outlets are designed to appeal to upscale consumers; lifestyle centers usually include attractive landscaping, fountains, outdoor seating, and other features that encourage browsing.
- Lifestyle Center (photo courtesy of concrete4u.com)
Mixed-use center: an integrated complex that may contain residences, offices, restaurants, theaters, a hotel and other services, in addition to retail stores.
- Eastgate Metroplex [mixed-use center,] Tulsa, Oklahoma (photo courtesy of eastgatemetroplex.com)
Village center: an open-air shopping center having several wings and often a central plaza.
- Renderings of Grand Avenue Village Center, River Grove, Illinois (photos courtesy of vorg.us)
Galleria: a glass-roofed mall or mall courtyard, derived from the European glass-vaulted Victorian-era shopping arcades.
- Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II Piazza del Duomo in Milan (image courtesy of wikipedia)
- Interior of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II Piazza del Duomo (image courtesy of wikipedia)
Main Streets: primary retail street of a village, town, or small city in many parts of the world. It is usually a focal point for shops and retailers in the central business district, and is most often used in reference to retailing.
- Main Street of downtown Los Altos of Silicon Valley, California (image courtesy of wikipedia)
Market: any structure that allows buyers and sellers to exchange any type of goods, services and information. Markets vary in size, range, geographic scale, location, types and variety of human communities, as well as the types of goods and services traded.
- Street Market in Aix en Provence, France (image courtesy of wikipedia)
Open-air: a shopping center in which stores are directly accessible to the public; exterior walkways may be covered, but the stores are not enclosed under a single roof.
- Ala Moana [open-air shopping] Center, Hawaii (photo courtesy of photolulu.com)
Plaza: describes an open urban public space, such as a city square. More recently single buildings with some semi-public street-level areas have been deemed “plazas,” borrowing the connotation of a center of cultural life.
- Plaza Mayor, Madrid (photo courtesy of wikipedia)
- Pantip Plaza, Bangkok, Thailand (photo courtesy of wikipedia)
- Pantip Plaza interior (photo courtesy of wikipedia)
Enclosed mall: a shopping center entirely inside a roofed structure with a limited number of entrances and most stores are accessible only via interior corridors.
- Auburn [enclosed] Mall, Massachusetts (photo courtesy of labelscar.com)
Outlet mall: a shopping center with national brand-name retailers, factory outlets, or close-out outlets selling discounted merchandise directly to the public through their own branded stores.
- Chelsea Premium Outlet Mall (photo courtesy of expandmywealth.com)
Strip mall: a small open-air neighborhood shopping center, usually smaller than 10,000 square feet, with at least three stores, arranged in a connected row facing a parking area
- Small strip mall in Santa Clara, California (photo courtesy of wikipedia)
Information Sources:
- Wikipedia
- Bigmallrat.com
- Criteria established by the International Council of Shopping Centers
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