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What happens when a mall dies? In my latest newsletter, I visit two of San Francisco's moribund shopping spaces -- the former Twitter building, and the former Westfield mall. What I find is very liminal. buttondown.com/thehypothesis/a

Felix

@annaleen This made me laugh out loud:

> [...] a glorious unbranded emptiness that future archaeologists will no doubt describe as “ceremonial chambers” or “special use spaces.”

Seriously, it's fascinating to compare those historical buildings with local counterparts, like the Unirea and Victoria stores in Bucharest, respectively. Or to contrast with modern malls, for that matter.