> If Amazon and online shopping hadn't happened, we'd still be going to the malls. According to https://www.strongtowns.org/ https://www.strongtowns.org/, the

> If Amazon and online shopping hadn't happened, we'd still be going to the malls. According to https://www.strongtowns.org/ https://www.strongtowns.org/, the "big mall with parking lots" infrastructure is much more expensive than the "small shops in mixed residential" infrastructure. So I would expect it was going to fail anyway, eventually, just more catastrophically, as the costs would be offloaded to local municipality and it would just all blow up all at once (as can be seen around Detroit, for example).