Exploring the post-2000s supermodern shopping centre typology as the post-globalised civic landscape, this dissertation investigates the relationship between the shopping centre and sociocultural and political histories, in particular, how architecture and design intend to directly reflect the zeitgeist and of a culture, place and time. Utilising French socio-anthropologist Marc Augé’s seminal text Non-Place: An Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1992), this dissertation analyses Augé’s theories of ‘non-place’ and the loss of sociocultural identity as globalisation evaporates the boundaries previously imposed by time, history and distance upon the city, the population and the consumption space. Establishing a contextual framework to analyse the concepts of supermodernity and sociocultural tradition through the work of Auge, the dissertation examines the emergence of the shopping centre and its relation to contemporary society.