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Due to the influx of people in these surburban areas, the amount of shopping centers began to increase as suburban America took shape. These often large buildings full of multiple stores, and services, were being used for more than shopping, but as a place of leisure and a meeting point for those who lived within suburban America at this time. Shopping for different goods and services in one spot without having to travel far and to multiple store locations, helped to keep shopping centers a component of these newly designed suburbs. These centers thrived offering goods and services to the growing populations in suburban America. In 1957, 940 Shopping centers were built and this number more than doubled by 1960 to keep up with the rising popularity of suburban America.


 * 1) ^ Cohen, Lizabeth (2003). A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. Vintage Books. pp. Chapter 6.