Going Shopping: Consumer Choices and Community Consequences. By Ann Satterthwaite. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. 1, 386.
本书调查了美国零售贸易对社区文化和社会互动的影响，评估了购物中心、远程零售和大卖场等当代购物形式的社会后果，适合关注消费与社区关系的读者。
Adding to the growing list of retrospective studies of shopping and consumption is this engaged survey of the impact of American retail trade on community culture and social interaction. Although the author (a city planner in Washington, DC) is broadly within the tradition of Jane Jacobs and other critics of the commercialization of urban space, hers is a contemporary, well-informed, and nuanced judgment of the impact of malls, remote retail, big box stores, and other expressions of contemporary shopping. Even though this book may not meet the expectations of the professional historian, it does attempts to put very present-minded concerns about the social impact of contemporary retailing trends into a historical context.