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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

The Uncertain Future of the American Mall

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The author and futurist Geoff Manaugh has noted that architects often employ people textures as a subtle way to manipulate perception: “You can take the most random rendering and just stick in a few people—someone listening to an iPod, somebody reading a newspaper, maybe a couple holding hands, some guy playing an acoustic guitar. Suddenly it’s meant to make the entire building beyond critique; it’s already part of our city.”
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