He capitalized on the trend of Americans moving to the suburbs in the 1950s

Taubman, a real estate developer who helped change the face of suburban life by popularizing upscale indoor shopping malls, died Friday at the age of 91. The announcement was made by his son, Robert Taubman, the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Taubman Centers Inc., the company his father founded 65 years ago.

Taubman donated tens of millions of dollars to the University of Michigan, Lawrence Technological University, the Detroit Institute of Art, and others. At UM, the Taubman Medical Research Institute has been a leader in stem cell research that has shown promise in the fight against debilitating diseases, including Lou Gehrig's Disease.

U-M's college of architecture and urban planning and various buildings at its medical school bear his name, as does Lawrence Tech's student center building, the Taubman Center for Design Education at the College for Creative Studies, and buildings at Harvard and Brown universities.