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The Economist on Shopping #
The Economist’s “Christmas Specials” (on the right, just under the ad) are without a doubt some of the best reading I did over the holidays. It wasn’t until a new issue became available that I remembered how much I’d enjoyed them. They’re all very long, but very worthwhile.
The story linked in the title is about the shopping center. It tells the essential story of the rise and fall of the indoor shopping mall. At its beginning, the concept was praised for creating an urban-like atmosphere in the middle of suburbia. But it was and is precisely that artificiality that made it so dislikable, and now so rarely built. As the piece explains, developers are still trying to copy shopping districts of large cities, but they’re now doing it out-of-doors.
Others that I liked were: “The Summer of Acid Rain,” the tongue-in-cheek “Mao and the art of management,” the history of charts in “Worth a thousand words,” and “Census sensitivity.”