Malls

This piece from WorldChanging looks at the trend of dying indoor malls, and some creative ideas for reviving or reusing them.

American-style malls are cropping up in Siberia, and gobbling up land, to enable once-isolated Russians to consume in ways that might have been unimaginable a generation ago.

Thousands of stores across the country face closure as the credit crisis curtails consumer spending, and chain retailers file for bankruptcy.