Once derided as cesspools of Reagan-era consumerist excess, the shopping mall somehow became an unlikely sort-of, quasi-public space that is now disappearing.
Urban studies
Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 short story “Nevsky Prospect” opens with a paean to the vivacity of life on its titular street.
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