On the birth and refinement of the shopping mall: The Terrazzo Jungle [The New Yorker]
"Taubman fusses about lighting, for instance: he believes that next to the skylights you have to put tiny lights that will go on when the natural light fades, so the dusk doesn't send an unwelcome signal to shoppers that it is time to go home; and you have to recess the skylights so that sunlight never reflects off the storefront glass, obscuring merchandise."
Panoramas of Moscow's insanely ornate subway stations:
"To the Viennese reformers of the time, the quality of civic life was a function of the quality of the built environment"
go figure.
Posted by: Susan at March 9, 2004 08:45 PMIt's a really good thing I didn't send you an IM calling your attention to that Malcom Gladwell article a full four days after you posted it to your blog. That would have made me look stupid.
Posted by: Mike at March 17, 2004 01:06 PM