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“ [The creator of the first climate-controlled shopping mall] arrived in America as a refugee from Nazi-occupied Vienna.
[The mall] was supposed to evoke a European city centre ... Shoppers were expected to sit and debate over cups of coffee, just as they do in the Piazza San Marco or the Place Dauphine. Gruen exiled cars, which he thought noisy and anti-social, to the outside of his mall.
Most contemporary critics thought Gruen had succeeded in bringing urbanity to the suburbs. Southdale was “more like downtown than downtown itself.” ”