Shopping Malls
HOW ARE SHOPPING MALLS CHANGING OUR SOCIETY?
Program: Addictions & community Support
Worker
Module: Communications
Name: Ismail Erten
Date: June 3, 2013
Instructor: Burns MacLeod
Assignment # 1
HOW ARE SHOPPING MALLS CHANGING OUR SOCIETY ?
* How much do you really know about shopping malls? * How are shopping malls changing your life? * Are you aware of the influence shopping malls may have on future generations?
In just under the past fifty years, small family businesses are gradually being shut out, and are rarely being visited by the people in their local communities. This affects small businesses in a negative way. For example, many shops on Main Street are gradually becoming a thing of the past due to the consequences of shopping malls. Throughout my speech I’ll be talking about the affects on small towns, cities, local residents, the financial consequences, and the impacts it could have on our future generations.
* While shopping malls have an influence on people's lives, not all of their effects have been positive. Almost all of the shops and services found in malls are in relation to large corporations. These businesses take away customers from smaller shops in near towns, forcing many of them to close down. That has led to the crippling of individually owned businesses and less local control over jobs. In addition, malls are harmful to the environment.
Each one is often built on land that is important to the survival of birds and wild animals or agricultural farming. Wherever malls are built, structures tend to cover large areas with buildings and parking lots, instead of trees or grass.
Therefore, they contribute to the loss of nature. And finally, malls are often built far away from the city or town center in order to accommodate the size of structures that cannot be built in a city core that already contains many typical city dwellings. This means that residents living within a 100 km radius must travel to those
Program: Addictions & community Support
Worker
Module: Communications
Name: Ismail Erten
Date: June 3, 2013
Instructor: Burns MacLeod
Assignment # 1
HOW ARE SHOPPING MALLS CHANGING OUR SOCIETY ?
* How much do you really know about shopping malls? * How are shopping malls changing your life? * Are you aware of the influence shopping malls may have on future generations?
In just under the past fifty years, small family businesses are gradually being shut out, and are rarely being visited by the people in their local communities. This affects small businesses in a negative way. For example, many shops on Main Street are gradually becoming a thing of the past due to the consequences of shopping malls. Throughout my speech I’ll be talking about the affects on small towns, cities, local residents, the financial consequences, and the impacts it could have on our future generations.
* While shopping malls have an influence on people's lives, not all of their effects have been positive. Almost all of the shops and services found in malls are in relation to large corporations. These businesses take away customers from smaller shops in near towns, forcing many of them to close down. That has led to the crippling of individually owned businesses and less local control over jobs. In addition, malls are harmful to the environment.
Each one is often built on land that is important to the survival of birds and wild animals or agricultural farming. Wherever malls are built, structures tend to cover large areas with buildings and parking lots, instead of trees or grass.
Therefore, they contribute to the loss of nature. And finally, malls are often built far away from the city or town center in order to accommodate the size of structures that cannot be built in a city core that already contains many typical city dwellings. This means that residents living within a 100 km radius must travel to those