{"id":10823,"date":"2014-04-14T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10823"},"modified":"2014-04-14T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T15:04:45","slug":"the-decline-of-malls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-decline-of-malls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decline Of Malls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/041414_1142_TheDeclineO1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Glancey wrote that in the US, shopping malls seem to be in decline:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Economic decline and online shopping have hurt the mall.<\/li>\n<li>Just as earlier generations had ghost-towns, the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century has &#8216;ghost malls&#8217; \u2013 abandoned super-structures fit for horror movie storylines.<\/li>\n<li>2007 might have been the turning point. From a rate of 140 a year, it was the first year in over 50 years when no new malls were built in the US.<\/li>\n<li>Malls may also have become unpopular because they became associated with youth who made adults feel uncomfortable shopping there.<\/li>\n<li>Given that malls are essentially giant, enclosed boxes it&#8217;s not clear what we should do with the abandoned ones. Various suggestions include turning them into leisure centers or casinos.<\/li>\n<li>Malls thrive in other parts of the world. China, Iran and even Bangladesh have malls bigger than those in the US.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about malls, and see some eerie photographs of abandoned ones over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20140411-is-the-shopping-mall-dead\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20140411-is-the-shopping-mall-dead\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Glancey wrote that in the US, shopping malls seem to be in decline: Economic decline and online shopping have hurt the mall. Just as earlier generations had ghost-towns, the 21st century has &#8216;ghost malls&#8217; \u2013 abandoned super-structures fit for horror movie storylines. 2007 might have been the turning point. From a rate of 140 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/041414_1142_TheDeclineO1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10826,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823\/revisions\/10826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}