The history of the mall, from its origins in the 50s to the dead malls of the 00s and beyond

The mall is dead. Or is it? 

People have been predicting the death of the mall since the 80s, says Alexandra Lange, author of Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall.

And yet, as Lange writes in her book, people keep shopping, and "the majority of malls survive".