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Anne Fisher
The entrance to the #FoxValleyMall in the far-west #Chicago suburb of #AuroraIllinois . Like many U.S. shopping malls, it was once a sprawling mass of indoor chain stores and the place where teens and adults would hang out. Now it has many empty shops.

Like many American malls, about half of the mall building has been demolished, and expensive "yuppie" apartment buildings have been built in that former section of the mall, with very little green space.

The city has worked hard to keep up and revitalize the remaining section of the mall. This large #mural portrays the icon of this part of #Illinois , called the #FoxValley.

The artist has done an excellent job of designing the image so that it blends with its surroundings and looks like it is coming out of the raised garden bed in front of it.

#Art #StreetArt #FoxRiver #ShoppingMalls #Malls #Storefronts #Foxes #PixelFox #Fox #FoxArt #Retail
Entrance to a suburban Chicago shopping mall. In the forefront is a raised garden area. On the wall to the side of the entry door is a colorful mural of a red fox sitting and staring toward the viewer. He is portrayed sitting on a rocky area of ground above a flowing river. The other walls of the mall also have a "Fox" theme, with repetitive outlines of foxes on one section of the wall. Above the door, a sign reads, "Fox Valley Mall." These far-west Chicago suburbs are Aurora and Naperville. They lie along the Fox River. The line of towns along the river are called the Fox Valley.
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D C Fitzgerald

instagram.com/reel/DFYQSg0x3HB CNBC: "More people are living at American malls as real estate developers knock down department stores and construct apartment buildings in their place.
At least 192 U.S. malls planned to add housing to their footprint as of January 2022, and at least 33 had constructed apartments since the pandemic began.
Dozens more apartment projects are currently underway in California, Florida, Arizona and Texas." #housing #innovation #rent #malls #apartments #culture #News

InstagramScott Darwin Fitzgerald on Instagram: "cnbc: “More people are living at American malls as real estate developers knock down department stores and construct apartment buildings in their place. At least 192 U.S. malls planned to add housing to their footprint as of January 2022, and at least 33 had constructed apartments since the pandemic began. Dozens more apartment projects are currently underway in California, Florida, Arizona and Texas.” #housing #innovation #rent #malls #apartments #culture #news"1 likes, 0 comments - tangledwing on January 28, 2025: "cnbc: “More people are living at American malls as real estate developers knock down department stores and construct apartment buildings in their place. At least 192 U.S. malls planned to add housing to their footprint as of January 2022, and at least 33 had constructed apartments since the pandemic began. Dozens more apartment projects are currently underway in California, Florida, Arizona and Texas.” #housing #innovation #rent #malls #apartments #culture #news".
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AJ Sadauskas

When urban renewal goes wrong: Inside a dead mall frozen in 1990.

Very interesting short film by Bright Sun Films. Along with the usual urban exploration bits, he gives a good history of how and why it failed.

The shopping centre was supposed to revitalise downtown Hamilton, Ontario.

But within six years, it had just a 40% occupancy rate.

A decade after opening, it sold for only CAN$3.6 million — just 5% of what it originally cost to build.

youtu.be/NV_c_c_RZdE?si=4fNO5B

#urbanism #UrbanPlanning #Canada #Ontario @urbanism #UrbanRenewal #malls #DeadMalls #UrbEx #UrbanExplaration

YouTubeIncredible ABANDONED Mall Frozen In 1990By Bright Sun Films
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AJ Sadauskas

@uis @milicent_bystandr The architect you're thinking of is a guy by the name of Victor Gruen.

The short version is that he was a socialist from Austria, who wanted to basically recreate the great walkable streets and plazas of Vienna indoors in Minnesota.

His views on cars, ironically, wouldn't be out of place on a @notjustbikes video: "Suburban business real estate has often been evaluated on the basis of passing automobile traffic. This evaluation overlooks the fact that automobiles do not buy merchandise."

He hated cars, and saw this as an antidote to car-dependent development:

"But Gruen had a grander vision. He wanted to re-create in microcosm the walkable, diverse and liveable town centres he so loved in Vienna.

"Part of his motivation was seeing how reliance on the automobile was affecting cities. In his classic book, Shopping Towns USA, Gruen rails against the development of drive-by shopping centres focused on catering to passing motorists.

"The original plan was for commerce to be broken up by numerous attractions like aviaries, fountains and works of art. The mall itself would be surrounded by residences, offices, medical facilities, schools and everything that made a community.

"The mall was inward-looking, not to keep people focused on spending but to shelter pedestrians from cars and away from their fumes and noise.

"Here’s the first painful irony, then. Rather than developing the new mixed-use centre envisioned by Gruen, the only thing built was the mall and car parks. The grand vision was reduced to a monoculture of big shopping brands surrounded by massive car parks, all accessible only by automobile."

theconversation.com/triumph-of

So the modern American shopping mall is basically a perversion of Gruen's original walkable town square/main street in a building vision.

The ConversationTriumph of the mall: how Victor Gruen’s grand urban vision became our suburban shopping realityIf you’re stuck in mall traffic this holiday season, spare a thought for Victor Gruen, whose grand urban vision turned into today’s suburban reality.
#Urbanism#UrbanPlanning#capitalism
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