Built Quote by Richard M. Nixon

Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.

— Ben Fountain

“By 2000, Americans had built almost twice as much retail space per citizen as any other country in the world: over nineteen square feet…

— Dolores Hayden

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is…

— Fareed Zakaria

“the Galleria, the world’s first covered shopping mall—”

— Mark T. Sullivan

The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied…

— Cesar Pelli

Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. It's also,…

— Norman Foster

A big shop in Manhattan would feel like we were betraying our roots. And we're not just going to open a bunch of stores.

— James Jebbia

“In the United States there are sixteen-and-a-half square feet of mall space for every man, woman, and child.”

— Randy Alcorn

“Therefore, the very large department store should not be viewed as a sinful undertaking, as, for example, the Tower of Babel. It is, rather,…

— Joseph Roth

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its…

— Martin Filler

There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president.

— Fred L. Turner

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the…

— Jerry Saltz