Comments on: Mallrats of America http://www.philebrity.com/2006/12/31/mallrats-of-america/ philly's longest-standing cityblog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:04:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Th:McJunkinhttp://www.philebrity.com/2006/12/31/mallrats-of-america/comment-page-1/#comment-853 Th:McJunkin Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:50:23 +0000 http://www.philebrity.com/2006/12/31/mallrats-of-america/#comment-853 Yeah, this Malls of America stuff is solid gold. I really wonder though how pre-"post-modernized" malls didn't focus suburbia to an acute point? I guess we're beginning to periodize suburban malls and establish a divide between the less accessible, complicated, community-building, old-growth malls and the more recent "blandified" (sic) brands. Any way I slice it I want my malls pretty basic. Yeah, this Malls of America stuff is solid gold. I really wonder though how pre-”post-modernized” malls didn’t focus suburbia to an acute point? I guess we’re beginning to periodize suburban malls and establish a divide between the less accessible, complicated, community-building, old-growth malls and the more recent “blandified” (sic) brands. Any way I slice it I want my malls pretty basic.

]]> By: Citizen Momhttp://www.philebrity.com/2006/12/31/mallrats-of-america/comment-page-1/#comment-851 Citizen Mom Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:39:00 +0000 http://www.philebrity.com/2006/12/31/mallrats-of-america/#comment-851 "shift the focal center of sprawling suburbia to a single acute point."Amen, amen amen. Let the suburbs be the suburbs, sez I. “shift the focal center of sprawling suburbia to a single acute point.”

Amen, amen amen. Let the suburbs be the suburbs, sez I.

]]> By: lord_whimsyhttp://www.philebrity.com/2006/12/31/mallrats-of-america/comment-page-1/#comment-849 lord_whimsy Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:05:44 +0000 http://www.philebrity.com/2006/12/31/mallrats-of-america/#comment-849 Willy Wonka decor is wonderful--living things being incorporated into architecture ia always wonderful. Sadly, the only evidence of this aesthetic seen today are the waddling shoppers who look like Oompa Loompas. Willy Wonka decor is wonderful–living things being incorporated into architecture ia always wonderful. Sadly, the only evidence of this aesthetic seen today are the waddling shoppers who look like Oompa Loompas.

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