Living At The Mall

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Katherine Coles

10 August 2005 - 10:00am

Condos and loft apartments are going up at retail meccas around the Phoenix area.

Building residences along with retail space is a new subset of a larger mixed-use development trend, bringing together shops, restaurants, entertainment, offices and housing. It is expected to bring shoppers closer to the malls and offer a "faux-urban" neighborhood for those who can afford it.

Full Story: Roll right out of bed and into the mall

Source: The Arizona Republic, August 9, 2005

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All of that only scratches the surface of what's wrong with this study. The idea that complex urban development patterns and human behavior can be meaningfully studied according to one primary criteria — density — is wrong from the start.

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Read the full article, written by Robert Steuteville.