‘The “Magic of the Mail”: An Analysis of Form, Function, and Meaning in the Contemporary Retail Built Environment' : Excerpts from: Annals of the Association of American Geographers 83, 18–47 (1993)

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‘The “Magic of the Mail”: An Analysis of Form, Function, and Meaning in the Contemporary Retail Built Environment'

ABSTRACT

And the truth-sayers of the shopping mall, as the death of the social, are all those lonely people, caught like whirling flotsam in a force field which they don’t understand, but which fascinates with the coldness of its brilliance