"Retro" Architecture

Just like the famous concrete cows of Milton Keynes, almost everything in the future will be pretend and designed to look like things used to before everything became a bit rubbish, really.  As you'd expect, Bracknell is a pioneer in this field. Visitors to this shopping centre in the middle of the city of the future will be amazed to learn that, despite being directly beneath one of the most medium-sized shopping centre roof structures in Berkshire, the escalators and the upper floor are entirely for show. Reliance on nuclear powered moon scooters means that Bracknellians are subject to the same limitations as daleks when getting about and so escalators are redundant. As a consequence, although Bracknell's residents have long since abandoned walking as a means of travel, for nostalgic reasons they like to be reminded of what it was like to do stuff that past generations enjoyed: to stand two abreast on escalators blocking people who want to walk on them; to throw litter from the upper floor on to passers-by below; and, to have to walk half way round the centre trying to work out how to get from one floor to another because of the deliberate misalignment of the escalators.