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Gruen wanted Southdale to be the nucleus around which to build a European style Aldstadt (town center). The parking around Southdale was where he was intending
by ocschwar 9y ago
Gruen wanted Southdale to be the nucleus around which to build a European style Aldstadt (town center). The parking around Southdale was where he was intending to design apartment houses.
That's why Southdale has a feel to it that subsequent malls don't.
- munk-a 9y agoArgh that's depressing. I don't frequent malls that often and it's due to the fact that I'm generally on foot, the sea of parking lots usually destroy any incentive I have to go to a mall and any time I've seen a mall embedded in residential zoning I'm quite fond of it. I still prefer having spliced zoning though, either NYC style with residences over commercial or by intermingling them laterally (i.e. shop-front, shop-front, apartment, shop-front, apartment) which would make a pretty awesome mall actually. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster_station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster_station (there are currently two residential towers in the station, a third being added)
- FearNotDaniel 9y ago"Altstadt" means "Old Town", which in many Germanophone cities also coincides with the "Zentrum" or city centre. But it specifically implies the presence of medieval or baroque-era buildings, not the kind of thing you just throw together on the periphery of a suburban mall in Minnesota...
- ocschwar 9y agoGruen did not intend to throw together anything.