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jhbadgertoday at 2:07 PM1 replyview on HN

He also had interesting ideas on shopping malls of all things, hoping that they could turn into places where people would socialize besides shopping and that they should have a maze-like layout so that people could get what he called "enjoyably lost" the way people can exploring cities. The since-closed Horton Plaza mall in San Diego had an odd layout and the architect even claimed inspiration from Bradbury for it.


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CTDOCodebasestoday at 3:43 PM

I think the maze thing is a strategy that mall operators use to trap shoppers in them and encourage them to spend more.

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