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The mall isn't dead -- it’s just changing

  • Written by Stefan Al, Associate Professor of Urban Design, University of Pennsylvania
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Today thousands of empty suburban malls dot the American landscape. Describing decaying buildings and cracked asphalt parking lots, eulogy after eulogy arrives at the same conclusion: The mall is “dead.” (There’s even a website – DeadMalls.com – documenting the decline.)

But 8,000 miles away,...

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