about shopping malls

我很喜欢的一个writer, bill bryson, once said

"we used to  build civilizations. We now build shopping malls."

I am against shopping malls in principle. I only shop out of necessity. Don't find too much pleasure in shopping, unless with a friend, or out of depression.

he also said

"To qualify as an edge city, a community must have 5 million square feet of office space, 600,000 square feet of shopping, and more people working there than living there. America now has more than 200 edge cities. Los Angeles and New York have about two dozen each. Almost all have been created since 1960, and almost always they are soulless, impersonal places, unfocused collections of shopping malls and office complexes that are ruthlessly unsympathetic to non-motorists. Many have no pavements or pedestrian crossings, and only rarely do they offer any but the most skeletal public transport links to the nearby metropolis, effectively denying job opportunities to many of those left behind in the declining inner cities. About one third of all Americans now live in edge cities, and up to two-thirds of Americans work in them. "

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• excessive consumerism is for sure exacebated by american optimis -lilipp- ♀ (29 bytes) () 01/15/2013 postreply 07:33:27

• 不知道是不是应该是必然 -lilipp- ♀ (87 bytes) () 01/15/2013 postreply 07:47:31

• somewhat related topic -lilipp- ♀ (500 bytes) () 01/15/2013 postreply 07:39:55

• nodnod. 国人 -lilipp- ♀ (103 bytes) () 01/15/2013 postreply 07:49:59

• 残酷在，自己不能引领，跟风就不是你说了算滴拉。 -lilipp- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2013 postreply 08:14:09

• 其实野不是跟风和引领的问题 -lilipp- ♀ (117 bytes) () 01/15/2013 postreply 08:15:23

• 可以想像。。。。 -lilipp- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2013 postreply 08:17:39

• 不知道那个会赢哦。 -lilipp- ♀ (210 bytes) () 01/15/2013 postreply 08:08:46

• 我们加州和大纽约等商业发达地区根本不会有象明尼苏达那样的超级大Mall. -i751- ♂ (310 bytes) () 01/15/2013 postreply 08:12:40

• 所以不会朝搞超大Mall发展。 -i751- ♂ (89 bytes) () 01/15/2013 postreply 08:22:43

• “有钱人”一代多很简朴滴阿。喝喝。 -lilipp- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2013 postreply 08:19:20

• 我说我自己 LOL -lilipp- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/15/2013 postreply 08:38:23