Abandoned malls

Americans got rich, relatively speaking, during the heyday of the automobile. In future histories people will learn that some of the idiosyncrasies of US urban planning (exurban planning?) were basically because the height of middle class economic activity coincided with the broad utility of the car, and they fed off each other until you had 3-car households and highways that all but exited directly onto cul-de-sacs surrounded by mansions. There's no room in that model for a town square - parking would be a bitch! So you build a new kind of town square, a mall, a GALLERIA even, with surface parking as far as the eye can see. Next to a highway. Tomorrow we're going to talk about the rise of personal computers, and the "dot com bubble!"

This is just making me want to go home and play Sim City.

Tiny Tower is more appropriate imho. vertical, mixed use, fewer pixels, etc.

LOL I'd forgot about that one.

Not uncommon I realise but wild to me he could just get in and film this and the stuff just left in there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV_c_c_RZdE

I'm interested in malls that find a life after death, like the Gwinnett Place Mall in suburban Atlanta, which was used as a location for the mall scenes in Stranger Things.

When I was a kid, Cinderella City in Englewood, Colorado was, to me, the height of opulence. Its decline is a case study in the death of a mall.

I heard about one in downtown Portland that was not quite abandoned, but almost.. so they started having like a Thursday night street walk kinda thing, with pop-up comic shops, guitar stores, food stands, etc.