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Dubai is pretty awesome. In one mall you can catch a movie, visit an aquarium, watch a water fountain show, go ice skating or watch a hockey game, and take a trip to the top of the tallest building on the planet. Then if after two or three days you've seen everything you want to you can take a one minute walk over a bridge next to aforementioned water fountain, and you're at another mall.
Another mall has a ski slope in it.
That ski slope in a shopping mall sounds unique! I was an OK skier about twenty years ago...would not try it today. That would still be nice to see, though.
Manila has to be number one. They have huge malls across the street from other huge malls, connected by bridges. It's ridiculous. They're building more and more malls all the time, or expanding existing malls. They have malls like a US city has Walgreens.
Of the big ones they mention, Glorietta and Greenbelt are across the streets from one another. SM City North EDSA & Trinoma are across the street from each other.
Not sure how it ranks internationally but supposedly Dallas has more shopping centers per capita than any other city in the United States and is also home to the second shopping center ever built in the United States.
Anyways I don't really care for shopping anyways however street retail makes things more interesting from a people watching perspective however being in an enclosed environment is nice during inclement weather or if it is really hot and humid out.
One city I would like to mention here about shopping malls is Buenos Aires. The GalerÃa PacÃfico is the finest shopping mall I ever seen. It has a wonderful architecture and many frescoes, making it look easily like an italian cathedral.
On the other hand it has also the Village Recoleta. According to some sources it was completely rebuilt, but when I visited it in 2007 my impression of that place was the worst possible, I couldn't even realise that someone would work there without having nightmares every night. More than being placed closely to the main graveyard of the city, the internal decoration is black with a reddish-purple carpet featuring some small coloured stars and an enormous wall with a dark red tangled buttoned wallpaper. In the top there is an enormous golden sculpture depicting a sliced human head. It was one of the most depressing ambients which I ever visited. I've heard it has one of the best movie theatres of Buenos Aires, but I would not be surprised if it only plays horror films.
Brazilian cities usually have lots of shopping malls. Not only the largest cities, but also the mid-sized.
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