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Vancouver's University in a Shopping Mall

A photo essay by Witold Rybczynski explores how a campus operates in a shopping mall in a suburban community outside Vancouver, British Columbia.
22 December 2011 - 1:00pm
Slate Magazine

Struggling Centers Revitalized With New Tenants

With the increasing popularity of online shopping, many shopping centers are losing retailers left and right. More unusual tenants are filling in the gaps, like gun ranges and bounce houses.
27 October 2011 - 2:00pm
The Wall Street Journal

A Shopping Merry-Go-Round

Modern Mechanics Magazine featured a strange idea for circulating people throughout a shopping mall called the "Revolator" that moved people up and around in glass boxes so they could see into stores.
21 June 2011 - 7:00am
Modern Mechanix

"The Ugliest Damn Building in New Jersey"

"...and maybe America," added Gov. Christie. The building in question is Xanadu, a brightly-colord mall that was scheduled to open in 2007 and with almost $2 billion spent ran into financing problems. New investment may turn the project around.
6 May 2011 - 12:00pm
The Record

China Plans its Biggest Mall

Developers in China are pushing forward plans to build a 4-million-square-foot shopping mall as part of a major cultural center outside of Beijing's Central business district. It will be the biggest mall in the country.
6 January 2011 - 6:00am
Baltimore Business Journal

Failures in Thailand's Shopping Mall Urbanism

Shopping malls are scattered all over Bangkok. On one hand they create a distinct urban setting in the city, but they also fall far short of creating actual community, according to this post.
21 November 2010 - 1:00pm
This Big City

The Wisdom and Future of Short-Run Transit

By looking at three Los Angeles examples of very short rail lines, writer Alissa Walker suggests that seemingly pointless but fun transit systems could be the best way to use transit to improve urban areas.
16 November 2010 - 7:00am
Gelatobaby

Downtown Mixed Use Generates More Than 30 Times The Tax Revenue of Malls

Sarasota County, Florida finds that one mixed use building generates 36 times the property taxes per acre as the region's largest high end mall. Mary Newsom reports that "evidence is piling up to show the benefits of compact, in-town development."
15 July 2010 - 2:00pm
Citiwire
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LEED Certification For Parking: Reserve Space For Low Emitters

A Marin County shopping mall hopes to be the first LEED-certified mall, partly by reserving parking space for low emitting vehicles. All spaces, for guzzlers and green vehicles alike, are unpriced, perhaps pointing to shortfalls of green building.
1 April 2010 - 10:00am
Marin Independent Journal

Mall of America Weathering Recession Surprisingly Well

Foot traffic is up 3.5%, and even sales are up a little at Minnesota's megamall. Retail Traffic Magazine gleans some lessons from the Mall's success.
4 March 2010 - 1:00pm
Retail Traffic Magazine

The Fall of Malltopia

Mark Dery looks back at the birth and death of the mall, from Victor Gruen to the present collapse, then beyond to proposals for reusing and revitalizing mall spaces.
28 November 2009 - 1:00pm
Design Observer
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Shopping Mall Sprawl Hurting City Businesses in Israel

Historic downtowns in Israel are struggling against the growing tide of suburban American-style shopping malls that are developing on the outskirts of town.
26 August 2009 - 11:00am
Tablet
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Bad Habits Persist in Designs for Future Malls

A competition to design the shopping mall of the future produces some surprisingly non-futuristic results, according to juror and commentator Allison Arieff.
6 June 2009 - 5:00am
The New York Times

Mixed-Use for Mormons

A private development of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, City Creek Center will be the largest mixed-use project in Salt Lake City.
15 May 2009 - 12:00pm
The New York Times

Prescribing New Life for Dying Malls

A panel of experts weighs in on what cities should do with their dying shopping malls.
7 April 2009 - 5:00am
The New York Times

Malls Reborn as 'Lifestyle Centers'

American shopping malls may be dying or already dead, but they are being reincarnated as mixed-use "lifestyle centers".
8 March 2009 - 1:00pm
Sustainable Industries
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Columbus Kills its Mall

20 years after the Columbus City Center opened its doors, the now nearly abandoned mall is slated to be demolished. The redevelopment agency plans to replace it with a park.
10 February 2009 - 5:00am
The Columbus Dispatch
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We're Just Not That Into the Mall Anymore

The New York Times takes a humorous look at the America's love affair (and breakup) with the mall over an Orange Julius at the Mall of America.
9 February 2009 - 6:00am
The New York Times
Nate Berg

The Urban Recruitment Center

Sat, 01/24/2009 - 17:59

The military has recently opened a new type of recruitment office known as "The Army Experience Center" in a Philadelphia shopping mall. It's like an arcade, where video games and other interactive technologies provide visitors a glimpse of what it might be like to be in the military. It's a new approach, one that capitalizes on the modern teenager's affection for video games to attract them to the military life. You could call it persuasive, cajoling, or even a thinly-veiled attempt to con kids with flashy games, but, as it provides exactly what its target audience wants, the bottom line is that it's very effective. Why couldn't a city do the same thing?

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A More Populated Future for Tysons Corner

Despite a high concentration of shopping, jobs and parking, Tysons Corner does not have a lot of people. Plans are moving forward that will bring more life to this office park, shopping center city.
20 December 2008 - 7:00am
The New York Times
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