Watching Canada’s Strip Malls Crumble Toward Extinction
The National Post has recently published an article on strip mall architecture and steps that are now being taken to counteract this form of development. The article begins with a poignant statement of the poor aesthetics of strip mall structure, "The first time cultural geographer Merle Patchett saw Edmonton’s sprawl from the airplane, she felt the culture shock shared by so many European immigrants to the Prairie city.