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The Mall is Dead (Long Live the Mall)

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The Wreck of the Downtown Mall

The mall was where women and their kids went shopping in increasingly bland buildings. These tan boxes were also not functioning as architects like victor gruin had hoped. He believed that the mall could counteract sprawl, make the suburbs more centralized and sophisticated. Instead, they were islands in a of parking that enabled sprawl,. exasperated white flight and further hollowed out cities.

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