You are allowing yourself to be deceived by facades. Have you gone around back to see what these places really look like? Are they built to service any fewer vehicles in their acres of asphalt--have you seen these places from the air?
I photographed a big box shopping center from the air, and all their environmental beauty was confined to thin strips of greenery used to camouflage the acres of black asphalt.
A quote come to mind: "Let's put some lipstick on that pig" --author unknown
Cheers, Rich
On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 02:40 PM, Achal Pashine wrote:
I must tell you that some of the strip malls do have a character of their
own. The one in Palo Alto (El Camino+Embarcadero for locals) at least has
very distinctive signature. All the names of businesses in one uniform
color/background etc.
I actually despise the large (traditional) malls because, one can blindly
expect which store is where + they do lack character. Even the public one
sees in traditional mall seems to be different than the ones who frequent
strip malls?
