11-16-2016, 09:25 PM
(11-16-2016, 03:47 AM)plam Wrote: Malls aren't actually public spaces, though, and we visit them at the pleasure of the owners.
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This is of course true now, but the original intention of malls, as per the original designer, so far as I understand, was that they should serve as a town square/downtown area/community area for the new suburbs going in. Of course, this is now how life turned out, but that was the theory.