A Conceptual Review of Regional Framing Asymmetries in Shopping Mall Resilience Research

Shopping mall decline and resilience research exhibits uneven regional coverage and framing. Following PRISMA 2020 guidelines, searches of Scopus and Web of Science (2000–2026) identified 2,144 records, reduced to 1,490 after deduplication and 143 studies after screening, full-text assessment, and citation searching. Studies were coded by region, framing, resilience layer, and market-cycle position. Recurring emphases include North American decline, Western European requalification, Chinese adaptation and oversupply, Gulf behavioral loyalty, and heterogeneous concerns elsewhere. We term this pattern framing asymmetry and identify three inferential risks: universalizing the North American template, interpreting non-measurement as resilience, and conflating demand-side triggers with supply-side vulnerabilities. These patterns characterize the corpus without establishing uniform regional trajectories. We propose a layered resilience model, conditioned by market-cycle position, and testable propositions. Our sustainability agenda prioritizes harmonized indicators, non-user sampling, longitudinal adaptive-reuse evaluation, and environmental and social consequences of obsolescence.