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by tomkinstinch 3112 days ago
The podcast 99% Invisible has an episode about the history of shopping malls. As conceived by Victor Gruen, a European immigrant, malls originally included these everyday places. He imagined them as "third places" for the suburbs beyond home and work. Later he became a critic of what malls became. It's worth a listen/read:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-gruen-effect/