Also a finer point re: my last tweet about malls and "preservation." I do not think malls should generally be targets for preservation, because they're too big, too commercial, too hard to save. (1/? prob like 3 idk lol)

I used to work for a preservation society, I am pretty pro-saving the good stuff. But the world changes, you cant keep it all. And I accept that maybe malls are outmoded and there's better uses for that land (2/whatever lol)

But I've been curious about the relative disinterest in the preservationist community in defending malls, a half-century old phenomenon that transformed America and in many cases represented the most notable architecture in many cities, in favor of parcel-level residential work

These are very notable buildings, that served as de facto downtowns, often designed by major architects, and they are secondary to, like, a bunch of fights to preserve whole residential neighborhoods as HPOZs

I don't think in 95%+ of cases that the mall should be preserved, most have outlived their useful lives. But I find the focus of the interest of the preservationists on micromanaging affluent neighborhoods to be questionable. (End!)