Comment on If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials.

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Malls are sign of bad ciry planning

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• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They will come back as the US shifts away from car centered culture, malls thrive in Europe

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  • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You have arcades in Europe?

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    • Head@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes

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  • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How will shifting away from cars result in more people going to the mall? How are you supposed to get there?

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well optimally you have 2 legs, you could use those, also public transport.

      Video with more info youtu.be/586SO9-wWoA?si=SL-vnIV14DPwFH9I

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      • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m not clicking that link, you left your SI in it. Google is gonna track me if I click on that.

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      • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well optimally you have 2 legs,

        It’s called number eleven

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      • card797@champserver.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It will just be delivered.

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    • Laborer3652@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Public transportation. In Germany at least, many of the train stations are located underneath common points of interest, such as malls, airports, downtown, etc. As a result, they are nearly always flushed with people.

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      • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And yes, it can be done in the US as well, and not just in cities. I think our similar touchpoint in the US is “Main Street”. Guess what: they still exist in a few places.

        Time to brag about my town. We have a town center with a Common, transit hub, library, post office, government buildings. Most importantly we have a nice walkable street with shops and restaurants. As was tradition, the lots are in back, but there are also higher density housing so many people are just there and all the buses, taxis, Ubers, scooters, and even canoe rentals center on that area so there’s transit.

        During COViD when we couldn’t go to places with a lot of people, this became much bigger. My family wasn’t the only one that developed a new tradition of walking at the Common and along the street, eating outside, or grabbing takeout from one of the many Ethiopic restaurants, to eat at a bench on the Common

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    • viking@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      By subway. By bus. By bike. Walking. The world by and large doesn’t revolve around cars. How do you think Europeans get there?

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      • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Public transport…and their countries are small as fuck. The amount of people who think the USA is the same size as European countries is hilarious. Most states are the size of a few eu countries.

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• pedz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If they come back, I hope they will be more accessible on foot, with a bike, or with efficient public transit. Because if they are still surrounded by deserts of parking lots, only filled with EVs instead of ICEs, they can continue to die.

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  • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If parts of it become residential like OP suggested, then it’ll be accessible by foot.

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  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s already a problem if they are not in the city center, as it sucks out business from the center and creates more traffic.

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  • thegreenguy@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In my country (and I think most of Europe) malls (especially those in more central areas) have underground parking, or limited above-ground parking. There is a really nice one which is connected to a big park in the back. So maybe you can replace the parking lots with apartment buildings, recreational spaces and transit infrastructure and maybe include some underground parking.

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