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What Do We Want From the Mall?
Mr. Malkin has a different idea ... Victor Gruen, a Jewish refugee who became known as “the father of the mall,” in Edina, Minn., just outside Minneapolis. Mr. Gruen had utopian visions of his ...
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The rise and fall of the US mall
King of retail The history of the modern US mall dates back to the opening of Southdale and its designer, Victor Gruen. Gruen was an Austrian-Jewish architect who immigrated to the US in 1938. His ...
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The rise and fall of the American mall retail industry
Enter Victor Gruen ... himself even cited Gruen as his main influence for the ideas behind Epcot. With Southdale all over the news, everyone wanted to go to the mall. Malls began springing ...
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The Gruen Effect
In the Gruen Effect an architects ... in today The Viennese architect Victor Gruen is considered the father of the shopping mall and the pedestrian zone His ideas about urban planning both ...