Mall, the once triumphant model of the American suburb landscape becomes the hybrid programmatic gated-community of the future. A place where the city comes to the suburbs...NYT
My god for, for life in the suburbs!
"Ms. Sandell, who described herself as 50-something, said she had not planned to relocate from her 2,400-square-foot town house in Wayland, but she could not resist the chance to live in a downtown atmosphere yet still remain in the suburbs. She bought a 1,700-square-foot three-bedroom, two-bath condo; three-bedrooms are listed from $800,000 to over $1 million."
I think a definition of "city" requires that it not all be owned by one entity. There are many condo owners here, but only one developer owns the mall, and I don't see the retail tenants being any kind of diverse collection of supply and demand.
So instead of calling it the "city coming to the suburbs", can we call it something like "the densification of a mall"? Because it is still a mall, and a mall is a specific creature, which is not a city (and a city is not).
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My god for, for life in the suburbs!
"Ms. Sandell, who described herself as 50-something, said she had not planned to relocate from her 2,400-square-foot town house in Wayland, but she could not resist the chance to live in a downtown atmosphere yet still remain in the suburbs. She bought a 1,700-square-foot three-bedroom, two-bath condo; three-bedrooms are listed from $800,000 to over $1 million."
Talk about manufactured.....
I think a definition of "city" requires that it not all be owned by one entity. There are many condo owners here, but only one developer owns the mall, and I don't see the retail tenants being any kind of diverse collection of supply and demand.
So instead of calling it the "city coming to the suburbs", can we call it something like "the densification of a mall"? Because it is still a mall, and a mall is a specific creature, which is not a city (and a city is not).
@ liberty,
I like that phrasing..
The densification of a/the mall!!
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