https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFYQSg0x3HB/?igsh=MWRxbWV4aHNoMHhzbA== 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

World’s Largest Department Store in Busan, South Korea

The Shinsegae Department Store is the largest of its kind in the whole world.#malls #shopping #section-Atlas
World’s Largest Department Store

Моллы в центре города медленно, но верно превращаются в чистые фастфудочные (произносится «фастфудошные»). #MW #malls #foodcourt #greatreaction

Australia's lack of fuel security

"Our way of life
depends upon cheaper oil and fuel coming from overseas, but it does so at the cost of our security and resilience...The thought of not having food in cupboards and fridges or prescription medicines would likely exercise people's minds a lot more than the ill-informed thoughts they had during COVID about toilet paper." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-07/australia-fuel-security-falling-short-foi-war-game-report/104745210

Tangled up in oil in Petrotopia
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/113773037156395951
#energy #vulnerabilities #fuel #FossilFuels #cars #oil #petroleum #fuel #mobility #dependency #EnergyDependency #Australia #infrastructure #automobility #roads #malls #highways #Petrotopia #PetroMelancholia #CarDependency #MobilityDesign #ClimateBreakdown #transformation #societies #MiddleEast #FuelSecurity #MSO #WayofLife

Tangled up in oil in Petrotopia

Imagine life on an Island that has to import 91% of fuel from overseas.
And the entire matrix of the place has been set up for oil dependency a century ago.

Without a car there is no mobility (in Petrotopia)
Without a car one can't get stuff (made /transported by fossil fuels)
Without a car one can't get to work or other places
Without a car one can't drop off the kids
Without a car one can't empty the dogs
Without a car one can't go for a walk
Without a car /mower one can't do the endless lawns
Without a car/ boat/ plane one can't re-create or have a holiday

Australia is reliant on imports for around 91% of fuel consumption.
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/australia-91-reliant-on-foreign-oil-research-report/

Bondre, N. (2023). Petromobility and Energy Coloniality in Puerto Rico: Reading Luis Rafael Sánchez’s La Guaracha Del Macho Camacho. Green Letters, 27(2), 219–238. https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2023.2243488
#energy #FossilFuels #cars #oil #petroleum #fuel #mobility modernity #dependency #EnergyDependency #Australia #islands #infrastructure #automobility #roads #malls #highways #Petrotopia #PetroMelancholia #CarDependency #MobilityDesign #ClimateBreakdown #transformation #societies

Do suburban shopping #malls have a future? Not if they’re like the ones from the past: cookie-cutter spaces with bland stores, surrounded by acres of parking lots. Why would anyone make a special trip … for that? The malls of the future will be like the downtowns of the future. They will be unique, with a #mix of retail and restaurants, architecture and events that will cause people to seek them out because they are … great places. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/style/what-do-we-want-from-the-mall.html

You heard them, celebrate the #MerriestChristmasAtSM this year with your friends and family

#hori7on #Christmas #malls #celebration #instagram #feeds #promotion

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDtQudmSfCo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

For interested Metro Detroit eastsiders . . .

Sterling Heights to act on proposed master redevelopment plan for Lakeside Mall

https://www.macombdaily.com/2024/12/15/sterling-heights-to-act-on-a-proposed-master-redevelopment-plan-for-lakeside-mall/

#Christmas decorations are very much up out here #malls #shoppingmalls #Malaysia #photography #klangvalley #petalingjaya

Ever Wonder How Much Food is Floating Around?
https://wp.me/p84YjG-4ot
#food #jakarta #newyork #foodie #zsoltzsemba #restaurants #infrastructure #Indonesia #hotels #malls #city #grocery #stores

https://zsoltzsemba.com/2024/12/01/how-much-food-is-floating-around/

Christmas at SM just got merrier with HORI7ON!

Make the most wonderful time of the year even more special when you drop by our dazzling Christmas trees at our SM malls.

Celebrate the merriest season at SM Supermalls!

#hori7on #sm #christmas #malls #jingle #happyholidays #happymonday

https://x.com/smsupermalls/status/1861001891812946259?t=lA3IESWiFEqb-92fc-RgoA&s=19

America is full of #AbandonedMalls. What if we turned them into #housing?

Converting #malls could create hundreds of thousands of badly needed homes.

by Rachel M. Cohen
Updated Apr 10, 2024, 9:30 AM EDT

"Amy Casciani, a longtime real estate developer whose corporation built housing across seven states, watched her local community struggle for years to add new homes.

"Casciani grew up in upstate #New ork, in a suburban town outside Rochester. She eventually started a family and raised her children there, and in the early 1990s, a new mall opened up, bringing over 100 new stores including anchor retailers like Sibley’s, J.C. Penney, and Sears.

"The mall was a proud boon to the town of Irondequoit, and a go-to spot for teenagers to hang out. 'Hands down the most attractive shopping mall in the area,' an editorial for a newspaper serving Albany declared. 'From its blue Legolike entrances and splashing fountain to its light-trimmed glass roof, columns and carousel, the mall exudes carnival gaiety.'

"But in a few short years, retail patterns across the United States began to change. Mall foot traffic slowed and online shopping ticked up. Stores in the Irondequoit Mall began to close, and by 2016, the last major anchor, Sears, called it quits.

"Casciani ached for her town, which not only was dealing with the eyesore of the abandoned mall but also lacked enough vacant land to develop desperately needed affordable housing. Her nonprofit development group, PathStone, embarked on a complex but meaningful project: They retrofitted the Sears department store into 73 rental apartments and built a new four-story multifamily building with 84 rental units on the adjacent parking lot.

"#PathStone connected the two buildings by a raised pedestrian walkway, and the #SkyviewParkApartments now serves adults 55 and up who need subsidized housing. Half of the units are reserved for seniors at risk of #homelessness, who can receive on-site supportive services."

Read more:
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/24075581/housing-conversions-stripmalls-affordable-supply

Ukraine Daily Summary - Wednesday, October 16 2024

'No intact buildings left' in Toretsk, accelerating Russian advance, military says -- North Korea has sent 10,000 soldiers to Russia, Western sources say -- NATO will do what's necessary for Ukraine to prevail -- Russian opposition needs to stop blaming Putin and start confronting Russia's violent imperial legacy -- and more

https://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20Summary%20-%20Wednesday,%20October%2016%202024/