Malls are popular here in Finland. At least more than in the US. The difference seems to be that they actually sell things you need.
In the US, it is like the cliché of buying a pocketwatch from a shady guy in a trenchcoat. All of the stuff is junk you don’t need, and even if you need it, it’s junk, sold at luxury prices. It isn’t even buy-it-for-life for the price.
A mall should be essential city infrastructure, not privatized portions of a city wherein capitalism reaches its most pure expression
huh if the mall was all activity kinda shit and community space i might have gone to one in the last decade.
Malls are popular here in Finland. At least more than in the US. The difference seems to be that they actually sell things you need.
In the US, it is like the cliché of buying a pocketwatch from a shady guy in a trenchcoat. All of the stuff is junk you don’t need, and even if you need it, it’s junk, sold at luxury prices. It isn’t even buy-it-for-life for the price.
A mall should be essential city infrastructure, not privatized portions of a city wherein capitalism reaches its most pure expression
our big suburban malls are even worse than that and typically aren’t somewhere you could walk to even if you wanted to