Malls Weren't Supposed to be Like This

Victor Gruen is considered the father of shopping malls, but he envisioned something more than shopping centers surrounded by asphalt parking lots. Timestamps: 0:00 The Car Centric Shopping Experience 3:30 Purpose of a Mall 6:00 The Gruen Effect 7:09 Victor Gruen & Suburbia 11:22 Southdale Center 12:42 A Tragic Downgrading in Quality 14:29 The Golden Age of the Mall 15:20 Malls Are Dying 17:02 Chance for New Life 20:17 Leave Downtown, Downtown Sources: Mall Maker Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream https://archive.org/details/mallmaker... SouthTowne Crossing Commercial: http://www.shopsouthtownecrossing.com/ Vehicle Trips By Purpose https://nhts.ornl.gov/vehicle-trips Mall Walkers of Meadowood Mall https://mynews4.com/news/local/meet-t... How Ikea mastered the Gruen effect https://www.vox.com/2018/10/17/179896... Customer Impulse Purchasing Behavior https://www.jstor.org/stable/3150160 Impact of ambient odors on mall shoppers' emotions, cognition, and spending https://www.academia.edu/15579860/Imp... Why the inventor of the shopping mall denounced his dream https://www.theguardian.com/artanddes... Southdale Center: America's first shopping mall https://www.theguardian.com/cities/20... https://www.gruenassociates.com/proje... Father of shopping centers disowns his progeny https://www.newspapers.com/image/2229... America's Suburban Experiment https://www.strongtowns.org/curbside-... This Man Is the Father of Modern American Suburbia This Man Is the Father of Modern American ... Victor Gruen Wanted to Make Our Suburbs More Urban. Instead, He Invented the Mall https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl... Southdale, the World's First Shopping Mall, Celebrates 60 Years https://www.minnesotamonthly.com/arts... Weather-Conditioned Shopping Center Opens https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/time... Nov. 28, 1956: Frank Lloyd Wright at Southdale https://www.startribune.com/nov-28-19... The rise and fall of the American mall https://www.businessinsider.com/the-r... Malls are dying. The thriving ones are spending millions to reinvent themselves. https://www.washingtonpost.com/busine... 25% of U.S. malls are expected to shut within 5 years. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/27/25per... Reno Entertainment District https://redreno.com/