{"409621":{"#nid":"409621","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones maintains world\u2019s only database of suburban spaces that are being re-imagined, including dead malls","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile malls are thriving worldwide, especially in countries with extreme climates or cultures that haven\u2019t grown up with malls, in the United States, it\u2019s an issue of fatigue. \u201cA lot of us have gotten bored of the format. What we\u2019re craving is a little bit of time outdoors,\u201d Dunham-Jones said. \u201cThat has become enormously popular so a lot of malls have demalled. They\u2019ve removed their roofs over the common areas or we\u2019ve seen a real resurgence in the construction of more traditional, old open-air Main Streets.\u201d Instead of a super-block with one building surrounded by a sea of parking, these retrofitted spaces are being carved up into public streets with retail on the ground floor and apartments and offices up above. Dunham-Jones maintains the world\u2019s only database of suburban spaces that are being re-imagined into more sustainable spaces. She can cite more than 220 examples of dead malls that are currently being repurposed; about 50 of those have become the bustling city centers their suburbs had been longing for.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28044","created_gmt":"2015-06-02 13:47:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:31","author":"Jessie Brandon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"scam-awareness","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/blogs.voanews.com\/all-about-america\/2015\/05\/20\/heres-your-chance-to-live-in-a-deserted-shopping-mall\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"838","name":"malls"},{"id":"173","name":"Redevelopment"},{"id":"127661","name":"repurposed malls"},{"id":"169036","name":"suburban spaces"},{"id":"167155","name":"suburbia"},{"id":"5963","name":"urban renewal"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}