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"When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also l..." — Rem Koolhaas
When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.
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