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<p>The architects who envisioned early shopping malls as common spaces were overwhelmed by the imperatives of exclusion and surveillance in spaces made safe for mass consumption. </p>
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall, by Alexandra Lange (Bloomsbury Publishing, 320 pp., $28) When I was 12, I went to the mall after school to look at a dress in the window at Laura Ashley. I pined after that dress. And Laura Ashley, unlike the fast-fashion outlets of today, […]