> Malls are in decline but the period of time they were an active social location was the 80s and 90s, which is a blip in the grand scheme of things. The ancie

> Malls are in decline but the period of time they were an active social location was the 80s and 90s, which is a blip in the grand scheme of things. The ancient Greeks went to the marketplace (το αγορά) as a social location. That’s where agoraphobia, the fear of public spaces, stems from.