Author Alexandra Lange shares the past, present and future of the shopping mall.

The mall is the place where people got their first jobs, got their first taste of independence goofing around with school friends, or bought their first pair of cool jeans. And while often derided by design critics, the mall in its heyday has been immortalized in many movies including “Mean Girls,” With the rise in the online economy, many have heralded the demise of these temples of commerce but malls continue to reinvent themselves. Lakeshore Public Radio's Dee Dotson and Tom Maloney speak with Alexandra Lange, an architecture and design critic and the author of the new book Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall about the cultural and design history of malls.