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> Malls are in decline but the period of time they were an active social location was the 80s and 90s, which is a blip in the grand scheme of things.

The ancient Greeks went to the marketplace (το αγορά) as a social location. That’s where agoraphobia, the fear of public spaces, stems from.




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