The Birth and Death of The Shopping Mall

Why are shopping malls dying? What does it say about the economy? Is an abandoned mall a sign of things to come? Producer Sam Grant explores both the birth and death of the shopping mall as we know it today!

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Incompetech
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Old Earth
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References:
http://time.com/4865957/death-and-life-shopping-mall/
http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/12/news/companies/mall-closing/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/22/mall-of-america-minnesota-retail-anniversary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_mall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Gruen
https://qz.com/454214/the-father-of-the-american-shopping-mall-hated-cars-and-suburban-sprawl/
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-gruen-effect/
https://www.citylab.com/design/2013/07/victor-gruen-wanted-make-our-suburbs-better-instead-he-invented-mall/6249/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southdale_Center
http://www.businessinsider.com/first-shopping-mall-us-southdale-center-history-photos-2017-8
http://interactive.wttw.com/tenbuildings/southdale-center
https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/the-la-architect-who-designed-the-shopping-mall-and-came-to-regret-it

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