Architecture Professor Explains Why Malls Are Dying
video description
Date: 2022-07-06
Related videos
Comments and reviews: 10
Don
One component missing in the discussion is the role of the shopping -plaza- with open storefronts. They are the surviving bridge between malls and online shopping. In the 80s going to the mall was an -event-, a way to spend your afternoon and often there was entertainment, safe envirnoment and temperature controlled. Parents could feel reasonably safe dropping their kids off at the movie theater and letting them hang out witih their friends afterward for awhile.
With plazas and their open store fronts its a matter of parking as close to the store as possible, running in to make your purchase and leaving. Today few of us want to have to walk 15 minutes through a cavernous mall to get to one store to pick up a single item or two. Kind of sad really. I managaged high line jewelry stores for several years in several states and enjoyed it immensely. I still occasionally pine for the sense of community of those days but also appreciate the convenience of open plazas and online.
reply
One component missing in the discussion is the role of the shopping -plaza- with open storefronts. They are the surviving bridge between malls and online shopping. In the 80s going to the mall was an -event-, a way to spend your afternoon and often there was entertainment, safe envirnoment and temperature controlled. Parents could feel reasonably safe dropping their kids off at the movie theater and letting them hang out witih their friends afterward for awhile.
With plazas and their open store fronts its a matter of parking as close to the store as possible, running in to make your purchase and leaving. Today few of us want to have to walk 15 minutes through a cavernous mall to get to one store to pick up a single item or two. Kind of sad really. I managaged high line jewelry stores for several years in several states and enjoyed it immensely. I still occasionally pine for the sense of community of those days but also appreciate the convenience of open plazas and online.
reply
DeckerdSmeckerd
The mall in my town is pretty boring. I think a good mall is a good place to hang out if you are school aged. There should be things to do and show your kids besides things to buy. Basically it should be more than a indoor shopping plaza. More amusements, entertainment, and attractions. For example, a local person that sells model trains online might be invited to set up an interesting and elaborate model train track for local advertisement, not to mention they can put it on video and put online for advertisement. I think they should be festive. Like a year round festival.
reply
The mall in my town is pretty boring. I think a good mall is a good place to hang out if you are school aged. There should be things to do and show your kids besides things to buy. Basically it should be more than a indoor shopping plaza. More amusements, entertainment, and attractions. For example, a local person that sells model trains online might be invited to set up an interesting and elaborate model train track for local advertisement, not to mention they can put it on video and put online for advertisement. I think they should be festive. Like a year round festival.
reply
Tom
A part of the problem is politics. In the eighties and the nineties when malls succeeded you had cities led by mayors and city councils that could see to city political issues. Starting around the year 2000 there was a focus on county commissions. A county commission-s job is to see to county issues, and malls are not a county political issue, malls are a city political issue. So with county commissions taking over, and city councils being shut down, the focus on building bigger and better malls was on the political chopping block.
Tom Sisson
reply
A part of the problem is politics. In the eighties and the nineties when malls succeeded you had cities led by mayors and city councils that could see to city political issues. Starting around the year 2000 there was a focus on county commissions. A county commission-s job is to see to county issues, and malls are not a county political issue, malls are a city political issue. So with county commissions taking over, and city councils being shut down, the focus on building bigger and better malls was on the political chopping block.
Tom Sisson
reply
John
Unused shopping malls can be utilized as large indoor farms to grow crops in a climate controlled environment, temperature, humidity, light, and other factors can be controlled.
Hydroponics can be used to grow crops with minimal water and soil.
The air in the malls can be modified to provide optimal growing conditions for the plants, it can have enriched oxygen or enriched carbon dioxide to speed up the rate of crop growth
reply
Unused shopping malls can be utilized as large indoor farms to grow crops in a climate controlled environment, temperature, humidity, light, and other factors can be controlled.
Hydroponics can be used to grow crops with minimal water and soil.
The air in the malls can be modified to provide optimal growing conditions for the plants, it can have enriched oxygen or enriched carbon dioxide to speed up the rate of crop growth
reply
CookyMonzta
Who needs a mall these days? You have the Web, and you have long stretches of streets literally becoming malls themselves, with stores whose names many people recognize as mall brands, now situated next to each other. Here in Brooklyn, Fulton Street has been that way for _eons, _ and even then they have had 2 indoor malls there (Albee Square Mall, 1980-2008; and CityPoint, since 2013.
reply
Who needs a mall these days? You have the Web, and you have long stretches of streets literally becoming malls themselves, with stores whose names many people recognize as mall brands, now situated next to each other. Here in Brooklyn, Fulton Street has been that way for _eons, _ and even then they have had 2 indoor malls there (Albee Square Mall, 1980-2008; and CityPoint, since 2013.
reply
Brandon
I have a theory California found the fountain of youth and some of the actors of Hollywood are the conquistadors and also some of the founding fathers are the conquistadors and they founded the Illuminati and Freemasons those two symbols were on the fountain of youth the fountain gives you eternal use but if the cost of your soul and the soul is where all your goodness is do you get it?
reply
I have a theory California found the fountain of youth and some of the actors of Hollywood are the conquistadors and also some of the founding fathers are the conquistadors and they founded the Illuminati and Freemasons those two symbols were on the fountain of youth the fountain gives you eternal use but if the cost of your soul and the soul is where all your goodness is do you get it?
reply
WIRED
We-ve seen some comments asking if this video was sponsored by Netflix or Stranger Things. It was not! We were inspired by the upcoming release to do a video about dead malls - and so we talked about the show in the video. WIRED will ALWAYS indicate when any of our videos have been sponsored - both in an onscreen title card as well as in our description box. Thanks for all your feedback!
reply
We-ve seen some comments asking if this video was sponsored by Netflix or Stranger Things. It was not! We were inspired by the upcoming release to do a video about dead malls - and so we talked about the show in the video. WIRED will ALWAYS indicate when any of our videos have been sponsored - both in an onscreen title card as well as in our description box. Thanks for all your feedback!
reply
Dan
It's a shame. I remember going on holiday to Florida and going around the malls.
There was always something cool and interesting to see.
I always loved the dated look and atmosphere, with aritifiial plants, salmon and aqua color scheme, water features, and that gentle music in the background.
It was like going back in time and it was pretty cool.
reply
It's a shame. I remember going on holiday to Florida and going around the malls.
There was always something cool and interesting to see.
I always loved the dated look and atmosphere, with aritifiial plants, salmon and aqua color scheme, water features, and that gentle music in the background.
It was like going back in time and it was pretty cool.
reply
Romeoslover
Instead of teenagers shopping and hanging out, the malls became ridden with gang activity, driving the shoppers out. People did not feel safe going into them. A new developer bought out our local mall and immediately tripled the lease prices. Many of the long time businesses pulled out and either moved to another mall, or closed entirely.
reply
Instead of teenagers shopping and hanging out, the malls became ridden with gang activity, driving the shoppers out. People did not feel safe going into them. A new developer bought out our local mall and immediately tripled the lease prices. Many of the long time businesses pulled out and either moved to another mall, or closed entirely.
reply
Angelo
Being a small mom and pop gaming store owner. I have looked into getting mall space for my start up and the price for a small cubical in the middle of the walk way was around $3000 a month not even for a store space. For a stand alone small store space out side was the same price. If the rent was lower I would not mind having a mall space
reply
Being a small mom and pop gaming store owner. I have looked into getting mall space for my start up and the price for a small cubical in the middle of the walk way was around $3000 a month not even for a store space. For a stand alone small store space out side was the same price. If the rent was lower I would not mind having a mall space
reply
Add a review, comment
Other channel videos
