Civs' UUs and UBs...

[awesome]

at least in the states, a supermarket is one store. a mall is a whole bunch of them. and i wouldn't say a shopping center is exactly the same thing as a mall, either, but that's probably because when i think of a shopping center, i think more of a strip mall, which is obviously just one kind.

anyway, even though they could've given rome and greece a building, everyone else around them (except egypt, but meh) has two units. and the "normal buildings based on europe" argument still makes sense for rome and the colosseum.

 

[sav]

Actually, 'Malls' dont exist outside of the US because nowhere else calls them that. E.G. in the UK we have supermarkets and shopping centres, but nothing that would be called a mall. They are the same thing though, just different nomenclature.

In NZ we say mall, and we usually use British words for everything. What do you call it if it's not a mall? I'm wondering if we even use the word mall for the same thing now... to us, it's a bunch of shops all joined together inside some giant building.

Our local mall is even called 'Lynnmall', so I can't be the exception that proves the rule

 

[awesome]

yeah, that's usually what they are

 

[bhavv]

What do you call it if it's not a mall?

Everyone just calls them Shopping Centres here. Such as these two from the cities I've lived in:

http://www.kirkgate.co.uk/
http://www.grosvenorshoppingcentre.co.uk/