Difference Between a Shopping Mall & a Shopping Centre ? SHOPPING CENTRES SHOPPING MALLS
1. Shopping Centre is one or more buildings.
2. It is an open outdoor market.
3. In a shopping centre there are only one or two entrances to each store.
4. Here, in order to go to another store you have to go outside & then enter another store.
5. Shopping centre is one or more buildings that contain stores and restaurants that share a common parking area.
1. Shopping Mall is a Single
Building.
2. It is a covered complex.
3. In a shopping mall there are several entrances into the mall.
4. While, in a mall, once entered you can go to any store in that mall without going back outside.
5. A mall consists of common, wide, indoor areas for traveling between stores, usually with a basement parking.
History
1. It all started in 100-110 AD, with the opening of one of the earliest public shopping centres; Trajan's Market in Rome located in Trajan's Forum by Apollodorus of Damascus, and is thought to be the world's oldest shopping centre and a forerunner for the shopping mall.
2. The Grand Bazaar of Istanbul was built in the 15th century and is still one of the largest covered shopping centres in the world, with more than 58 streets and 4,000 shops.
3. The Marché des Enfants-Rouges in Paris opened in 1628 and the Oxford Covered Market in Oxford, England opened in 1774 and still runs today.
4. Similarly, Many shopping centres opened from the period of 1775 to early 20th century.
5. The Cleveland Arcade was among the first indoor shopping arcades in the US and an architectural triumph. When the building opened in 1890, two sides of the arcade had 1,600 panes of glass set in iron framing and is a prime example of Victorian architecture. An early indoor mall prototype in the United States was the Lake View Store at Morgan Park, Duluth, Minnesota, which was built in