The Unacceptable 'Flaneur': The Shopping Mall as a Teenage Hangout.

Examines attitudes toward the role of the shopping mall as a place for congregating. Notes that adult attitudes reflect a discomfort with teenagers being in a place where they have no clear role, while teenagers transgress and question the spatial hegemony of adulthood, creating a "thirdspace" reflecting their place between adulthood and childhood and serving as a cultural outpost. (JPB)