Geog Thoughts

[T]hose of us for whom it is designed are willing to suspend the privileges of public urban space to its relatively benevolent authority, for our desire is such that we will readily accept nostalgia as a substitute for experience, absence for presence, and representation for authenticity. We overlook the fact that the shopping center is a contrived, dominated space that seeks only to resemble a spontaneous, social space. Perhaps also, we are simply ignorant of the extent to which there is a will to deceive us.