America's Most Endangered Malls

Submitted by SeaQ on June 29, 2009 - 4:12pm

Stopping Our Shopping

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Americas-Most-Endangered-usnews-1952033275.html?x=0&.v=1

Let's apply the word 'endangered' to malls. Let's personify them, and lend characteristics of the natural world to our economic system while doing so. Let's use phrases like "Malls have a natural lifespan", "architecture evolves", "fight to survive", and "retail landscape".
When people begin to think of the economy as they do of the weather, they will quit seeking root causes.

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Shopping malls

Submitted by Lemsip on August 5, 2010 - 3:11pm.

Malls have a lifespan of a decade or two as the building design can date very quickly. Witness the ugly montrosities that were thrown up in the sixties and seventies that look like futuristic prisons from the outside. What breaks my heart even more is that most of them were built on the site of high streets with often winding roads which some people think of as slums but now are thought of as quaint. Now they have to be knocked down and new exciting malls built with glass walls, shops facing the outside as well as the inside and atriums.

I prefer the semi enclosed malls which are partially open to the sky as the rooves don't meet in the middle but it would be great if they shops faced to the outside of the mall.

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Submitted by SeaQ on July 13, 2009 - 5:27pm.

I think if people as a whole began to look for root causes to the problems we as a society face, then we could begin to solve them. I understand how one can get bogged down by over analyzing, but on the other hand mindless action can be just as ineffective.

root causes

Submitted by Savitri D on July 7, 2009 - 11:27pm.

but what will we do instead? I mean should we be seeking root causes? I guess I do that all day and it doesn't really get me anywhere so maybe your right.