Malcolm Gladwell: The birth of the shopping mall. "Victor Gruen may well have been the most influential architect of the twentieth century. He invented the mall." Related: Heathcote's mall space.
Photos of ghost-town Pripyat (post-Chernobyl), mirrored by Lightfoot. Also: Stross visited a nuclear reactor.
... Post-catastrophe/civilisation, a favourite theme: fiction (Richard Jefferies's After London, Where London Stood, Ronald Wright), art (Joseph Gandy/Soane's Rotunda, David Roberts in Egypt, Edward Burtynsky even), and geography (Pripyat, Luderitz, Amarna). More on this soon.
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