Shopping Malls
The neighborhood of Barra is home to many fancy, modern and mega-malls, the most notable being the BarraShopping (the largest mall in South America with nearly 700 stores, restaurants, cinemas and bowling), the New York City Center, the Rio Design Barra and the 'Downtown'. There is still a new shopping under construction, the Village Mall, it will be the most exclusive and luxury shopping in Rio de Janeiro. List of the most important malls:
- BarraShopping (Avenue of the Americas)
- New York City Center (Avenue of the Americas)
- Rio Design (Avenue of the Americas)
- Downtown (Avenue of the Americas)
- Via Parque Shopping (Ayrton Senna Avenue)
- Cittá América (Avenue of the Americas)
- Casa Shopping (Ayrton Senna Avenue)
- Barra Square (Avenue of the Americas)
- Barra Garden (Avenue of the Americas)
- Barra Point (Armando Lombardi's Avenue)
- Barra World (Avenue of the Americas)
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Famous quotes related to shopping malls:
“Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism.”
—Arthur Kroker (b. 1945)
“The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is that we do not need most of what they sell, not even for our pleasure or entertainment, not really even for a sensation of luxury. Little in them is essential to our survival, our work, or our play, and the same is true of the boutiques that multiply on our streets.”
—Henry Fairlie (1924–1990)
“The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)