But experts say the proposal reflects an increasing problem in urban malls, which rely on an image of order and security to attract wary suburbanites.

It's happening in urban malls all over the country.

Its developers are touchy when their new assemblage is likened to an urban mall.

The reason to do an urban mall is to attract people.

If she'd been knocked on the head with a brick while she was at an urban mall, that would be one thing.

It's more that even the most sophisticated urban mall has a way of seeming suburban, a place too much like other places.

Retail brokers say that any enclosed urban mall is a hard sell.

It fills what used to be a huge windowless urban mall.

Nor had the concept of an enclosed urban mall with national retail chains as anchors taken hold.

Midtown Plaza is the first urban indoor mall in the United States.