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| | The New Yorker: Fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Southdale was introverted: the exterior walls were blank, and all the activity was focussed on the inside. |
 | | A few years after that, inspired by Gruen, he matched Southdale with an enclosed mall of his own in Hayward, California, and over the next half century Taubman put together what is widely considered one of the finest collections of shopping malls in the world. |
 | | Today, fifteen minutes down an “avenue of horror” from Southdale is the Mall of America, the largest mall in the country, with five hundred and twenty stores, fifty restaurants, and twelve thousand parking spaces—and one can easily imagine that one day it, too, may give way to something newer and bigger. |
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