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Copyright © 2015 by Witold Rybczynski

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First edition, 2015

A list of the publications in which these essays originally appeared, in slightly different form, can be found in the Afterword and Acknowledgments.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rybczynski, Witold.

    Mysteries of the mall: and other essays / Witold Rybczynski. — First edition.

        pages cm

    Includes index.

    ISBN 978-0-374-26993-7 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-1-4299-5324-5 (e-book)

    1. Cities and towns—United States—History. 2. City planning—United States. 3. Architecture and society—United States. I. Title.

    NA9105 .R944 2015

    720—dc23

2014046633

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