Archive for Shopping Malls
May 14, 2010 · Filed under Authenticity, Big Box, Housing, Master Planning, Real Estate, Shopping Malls
Imagine living in a Tesco house, sending your child to a Tesco school, swimming in a Tesco pool and, of course, shopping at the local Tesco superstore. According to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Cabe), the government’s adviser on architecture and design, this collective monopoly is not an imaginary dystopia. “Tesco Towns” on this model are already being planned across the UK, from Inverness in Scotland to Seaton in Devon.
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January 11, 2010 · Filed under Big Box, Diversity, Economics, Real Estate, Retail, Revitalization, Shopping Malls
The landscape is littered with the giant carcasses of failed retail emporia. Ideas for what’s next are no less visionary. But are they any more practical?
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November 11, 2009 · Filed under Architecture, Big Box, Density, Mixed Use, Multi-Level Urbanism, Retail, Shopping Malls
All-in-one projects with retail, residential and office components are attracting attention. But not everyone is onboard.
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Popularity: 48% [?]
November 2, 2009 · Filed under Artificial Landscapes, Beauty, Campus Planning, Creative Cities, Economics, Landscape, Parks, Place making, Shopping Malls, Tourism
Disney has always been an easy target for urban designers and architects. Main Street USA, the main drag of its parks, can be read as a cruel joke. Its simulated urbanism and festival atmosphere may seem like a sinister, conservative knock-off of actual small-town main streets of yore, lodged deep in the American collective memory, that corporate titans like Disney helped kill with their economics of scale and squeaky-clean spectacle. Now, instead of a public realm, we have cities that are “luxury products,” meant not for the stuff of life but for endless, mindless consumer fantasy. Thanks (in part) to the influence of Disney.
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October 2, 2009 · Filed under Architecture, Big Box, Density, Economics, Gentrification, Real Estate, Shopping Malls, Suburbs
Strip malls are in virtually every American city, but they’re rarely an important part of those cities. Ava Bromberg says they can be. Her idea is to turn strip malls into community-owned hubs that generate capital within their neighborhood and keep it there.
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July 31, 2009 · Filed under Creative Cities, Economics, Real Estate, Shopping Malls
Hard times for the retail industry could be a boon for artists and dancers in need of space to work and perform.
In a collaborative effort with the Arts Initiative at Ohio State University, Campus Partners plans to offer rent-free space to emerging artists in its South Campus Gateway complex along N. High Street. The artists will occupy empty retail storefronts amid the Gateway bars and restaurants, with a goal of attracting the energy and excitement of the arts to the still-evolving commercial and residential district.
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July 15, 2009 · Filed under Big Box, Density, Diversity, Ecosystems, Investment, Mixed Use, Place branding, Planning, Shopping Malls, Statistics, Urban Design
Some 120,000 people work in Tysons Corner, Va., but only 17,000 live there. To transform this hotbed of suburban gridlock into a green, walkable city, a soon-to-be-adopted plan-as envisioned by our artist-calls for as much as tripling the current square footage by expanding upward, with the tallest buildings located next to four new train stations, which should be completed by 2013.
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April 9, 2009 · Filed under Economics, Real Estate, Shopping Malls
As the recession deepens, the retail industry continues to take a huge hit. Nowhere is this more visible than in the rising vacancy rate in shopping malls across the country. Mall owners are gambling on various businesses to draw people in, from water parks to educational services. What happens, or should happen, to dying or dead shopping malls?
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March 21, 2009 · Filed under Density, Diversity, Public Space, Real Estate, Shopping Malls, Urban Design
Lifestyle architect Ben Wood created Xintiandi and three other tiandis in China. He tells Nancy Zhang that his fifth, biggest and most challenging “romantic interlude” is underway in the Pearl River Delta.
Shanghai’s Xintiandi set the bar (how high is disputed) for renovations of old areas for commercial use and a new audience. Now the architects behind it are working on their most ambitious project to date: Lingnan Tiandi in Foshan, central Guangdong Province.
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March 17, 2009 · Filed under Big Box, Mixed Use, Shopping Malls, Suburbs
Today, nearly 20 percent of the 2,000 largest malls in the United States are failing, according to an interview in Newsweek with Ellen Dunham-Jones, author of “Retrofitting Suburbia,” a collection of case studies of suburban property redevelopments and the director of the architecture program at Georgia Institute of Technology.
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