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Interesting article on why the idea that malls are dying may be more a media concept than reality: http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/03/shopping-malls-arent-a
by inthewoods 11y ago
Interesting article on why the idea that malls are dying may be more a media concept than reality:
http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/03/shopping-malls-arent-actually-dying/387925/ http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/03/shopping-malls-arent-a...
"The dead or dying mall is a real phenomenon. But all you have to do is invert these figures to get the bigger picture, which looks very different. If 20 percent of malls are in trouble, then 80 percent are still healthy. If 3.4 percent of malls are dying, then 96.6 percent of them aren't. (When the New York Times ran an otherwise nuanced front-page story on struggling malls in January, the accompanying graphic had a top line of 20 percent, wrongly suggesting that a rash of dead malls was a pandemic.)"