Tag: Consumerism
How Stan Lee Became the Face of an Exploitative Industry
The Rise and Fall of the Mall
The shopping mall has a great many antecedents: the opulent markets of Victorian London, the arcades of Paris, and the department stores in the United States that could swallow an entire city block. But the mall as we know it has only one daddy: the architect Victor Gruen. A Viennese socialist, Gruen had established a tidy practice designing residential projects and shops before the Nazis seized Austria in 1938. Gruen’s forte was
This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of a Habitable Planet
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