Adam Klaff (@klaff.bsky.social)

TIL one of the inventors of the shopping mall was a European socialist who envisioned them as urban spaces to free people from car-dependent sprawl ideas.ted.com/the-strange-...

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The strange, surprisingly radical roots of the shopping mall Victor Gruen was an avant-garde European socialist who inadvertently designed that all-American creature, the mall. But, as Steven Johnson reveals, his master plan was way grander — and one w… https://ideas.ted.com/the-strange-surprisingly-radical-roots-of-the-shopping-mall/