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ANCIENT AND MODERN: A MALL TOUR OF ISTANBUL

ANCIENT AND MODERN: A MALL TOUR OF ISTANBUL

A world tour of malls has to begin where malls themselves were born: Istanbul, Turkey, home to the Grand Bazaar and in the last decade home to some of the most modern shopping complexes in the world. That’s a lot of time between developments, but perhaps the Ottoman Empire was stingy with building permits. Yet a comparison of the Bazaar ... Read More »