Oh my god Chloe youâre right and you should say it
Fun fact: Victor Gruen, the âinventorâ of the modern shopping mall, wanted his malls to be full of apartments, schools, medical facilities, and indoor parks in addition to the stores, so people could live, work, and shop under one roof. This never happened and instead all the space was used for stores, something that he hated.Â
Itâs not just a case of âhey it would be easy to repurpose all this spaceâ, malls were originally designed to be living centers and it wouldnât take that much tweaking to bring them back to it.
âI am often called the father of the shopping mall,â he once said, reflecting on his career two years before his death in 1978. âI would like to take this opportunity to disclaim paternity once and for all. I refuse to pay alimony to those bastard developments. They destroyed our cities.â
















