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Architecture Professor Explains Why Malls Are Dying | WIRED

The 1980’s nostalgia and sci-fi show Stranger Things returns for season three with a new setting: The Starcourt Mall. WIRED’s Emily Dreyfuss talks with architecture professor Ellen Dunham-Jones about mall culture and the fate of dead malls. Hint, zombies. ►► Also, check out the free WIRED channel on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and…

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The 1980’s nostalgia and sci-fi show Stranger Things returns for season three with a new setting: The Starcourt Mall. WIRED’s Emily Dreyfuss talks with architecture professor Ellen Dunham-Jones about mall culture and the fate of dead malls. Hint, zombies.

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  1. WIRED

    June 28, 2019 at 10:43 pm

    We’ve seen some comments asking if this video was sponsored by Netflix or Stranger Things. It was not! We were inspired by the upcoming release to do a video about dead malls — and so we talked about the show in the video. WIRED will ALWAYS indicate when any of our videos have been sponsored — both in an onscreen title card as well as in our description box. Thanks for all your feedback!

    • Jamie Hofman

      July 3, 2019 at 11:47 am

      @Carl Anthony Because it is going to be awesome!

    • Mike Scherzer

      July 4, 2019 at 6:02 am

      I saw the connection and thought that it was cool.

    • Alen B

      July 4, 2019 at 12:55 pm

      Woah get over it people. It’s ok to love a show.

    • Strong Black Independent Republican Black Waman

      July 4, 2019 at 5:25 pm

      WIRED this show sucked

  2. Destiny Fan

    July 4, 2019 at 2:29 pm

    Boomer investors have poor imagination so they keep building malls.

  3. Destiny Fan

    July 4, 2019 at 2:30 pm

    Re-purpose these spaces to house homeless people.

  4. Jacqueline Holden

    July 4, 2019 at 2:35 pm

    just put an urban outfitters and a nike store in the mall and u will be good for another 10 or o years

  5. Chris

    July 4, 2019 at 2:40 pm

    ONE NAME, DAN BELL.

  6. pleuvonics

    July 4, 2019 at 4:05 pm

    There’s this great video about a dead mall that got turned into a residential space for single individuals with small rooms. It was such a great idea.

  7. VERSATILE

    July 4, 2019 at 4:22 pm

    Too expensive, that’s why.

  8. The Contrarian

    July 4, 2019 at 4:51 pm

    The mall I grew up going to was bulldozed and the land is being redesigned as a police station. Memphis needs it.

  9. David Webster

    July 4, 2019 at 5:15 pm

    Adam Ruins everything has a good take on it: Money laundering essentially.

  10. Connor Northness

    July 4, 2019 at 5:16 pm

    Garbage

  11. Allison Steenson

    July 4, 2019 at 5:33 pm

    “I know the Romantics, I have studied them”. Thank you, we’re glad to know you did, indeed, go to college.

  12. JakeInStereo

    July 4, 2019 at 5:47 pm

    Oh wow, I didn’t expect to see ACC Highland there. 8:19

    Funny, when I was in high school that was the mall I’d skip school at, ironically, it’s now the college I attend go figure.

  13. Bryan T

    July 4, 2019 at 6:49 pm

    a lot of chatter and no substance here

  14. Mr Roboto Comics

    July 4, 2019 at 7:12 pm

    So cool to see Macomb Mall @ 3:15
    Used to shop there with my family as a kid.

  15. yoga pangestu

    July 4, 2019 at 8:14 pm

    mall in Jakarta : am i a joke to you?

  16. airr fourr

    July 4, 2019 at 8:26 pm

    Excelentísimo!

  17. Ken Hymes

    July 4, 2019 at 8:32 pm

    dang that’s a shallow predictable take, prof

  18. techtiptricks

    July 4, 2019 at 8:54 pm

    These mutant women……

  19. Rv Stark

    July 4, 2019 at 10:04 pm

    Filipinos are laughing hahaha

  20. whits water

    July 4, 2019 at 10:39 pm

    Malls are still packed in NJ.

  21. Davin Peterson

    July 4, 2019 at 11:12 pm

    The movie Wonder Woman 1984 was filmed at the dead closed Landmark Mall in Alexandria, VA last year. This mall is slated to be demolished

  22. Davin Peterson

    July 4, 2019 at 11:19 pm

    Outdoor malls have started to pop up across the country

  23. Ambient Stereo Recordings

    July 5, 2019 at 12:45 am

    That professor is U-G-L-Y and those glasses are not flattering on her at all!

  24. Susan

    July 5, 2019 at 1:47 am

    Starcourt is Gwinnett Mall in Gwinnett GA. It had a dead woman in one of the food court stalls for 2 weeks during 2017 Christmas. The mall is still open but like most malls, there’s little to know business.

  25. Chris Sanchez

    July 5, 2019 at 2:11 am

    I’m confused. Is there a mall in stranger things

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