• ggppjj@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Hell, at least shopping malls were up-front about their literal storefronts.

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      4 months ago

      Even that is a perversion- Victor Gruen is largely cited as one of the pioneers of the shopping mall. He was an Austrian immigrant to the US. He wanted to create a modern, climate-controlled version of the public spaces Europe had for centuries. They were designed to be public parks, housing, schools, etc, with shopping being just a portion of the space.

      He famously denounced what the shopping mall became.