This past weekend I sat down with some weird friends and an espresso stout to watch the 1985 cinema masterpiece, Back to the Future.I couldn't help but notice the barren mall parking lot in which Dr. Emmett Brown, the mad scientist, tests his time traveling car. And so, today is the day that the mall and its daunting lots receive the label of 'bad architecture'. Although the interior of the shopping mall does have its merits- walkability, skylights, places to eat, rest, spontaneously interact... the mall in its entirety is a disgrace to human development. Simply put, the car is one of our greatest downfalls in the scheme of a well designed city, one in which people love to be in. The mall only caters to that downfall and encourages driving and consumerism. It feeds off a suburban lifestyle and traps its users in a controlled environment of chain stores. There is nothing unique or sustainable about it. Let's BACK out of the big box mall and move in TO THE FUTURE.
Scene from Back to the Future, 'No pine' mall is more accurate
Marty McFly: Doc, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88. Dr. Emmett Brown: Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
This will happen to you if you support the big box mall...
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