New and Old #115
Friday roundup and commentary
The Allure of Ruins, Discourse Magazine, James Lileks, June 12, 2023
“No one said they’d last forever. But there wasn’t any reason to think they wouldn’t. Hanging out as teens, we never thought we’d outlive the mall.”
This is a fun, thoughtful piece not just on malls per se, but on why we find abandonment and decline so captivating in some way, and how it…
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