TIL Like casinos, shopping malls are intentionally designed to disorient visitors. The feeling of losing track of time and geography inside a mall is called the Gruen Transfer. en.wikipedia.org Submitted by Rifletree t3_11mvpn1 on March 9, 2023 at 3:54 PM in todayilearned 136 comments 1,664
angeliswastaken_sock t1_jbl7o0h wrote on March 9, 2023 at 8:59 PM >It is named after Austrian architect Victor Gruen, who disapproved of such manipulative techniques. How nice of them...... Permalink 2
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