a one-time icon of american capitalism and prosperity, reborn as a ubiquitous symbol of its decline: the american shopping mall experiment

hello!

i wrote a substack piece using case studies to detail what exactly led to the rise of and then what gave way to the rapid collapse of suburban monolith shopping malls.

give it a read! https://open.substack.com/pub/laserdyke/p/the-uniquely-american-shopping-mall?r=50o2x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web