Why did cities build downtown malls?
The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/citybeautiful08211 I’m on Patreon! Consider supporting this channel: / citybeautiful This video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/city-beautif... Resources: “The Downtown Mall Experiment” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/1... “When Planning Fails: Downtown Malls in Mid-Size Cities” https://www.proquest.com/openview/805... “Modelling pedestrian behaviour in downtown shopping areas” https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... “Pedestrian Movement and the Downtown Enclosed Shopping Center” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/1... “Downtown retail revitalization: a review of American development strategies” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/1... Produced by Dave Amos in sunny San Luis Obispo, California. Edited by Ryan Alva in Los Angeles, California. Audio by Eric Schneider in cloudy Cleveland, Ohio. Select images and video from Getty Images. Black Lives Matter. About the host: Dave is an assistant professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

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