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Strip Malls? Really?

by Matt Mayrl on March 16, 2008 in All Politics is Local: An Urban Policy Blog

Our first guest post, from fellow urban policy wonk, Patrick Thrasher…

This link, about great gems - restaurants, galleries - in strip malls in LA, came over the GSD Urban Planners’ listserv.

I think it’s a pretty great reminder that the form of a a city’s physical structure alone doesn’t doom or save a city. Even strip malls, universally reviled by urbanists, have something to offer, in this case, relatively low overhead for interesting small businesses and restaurants. Many thanks to Sarah Dabbs, MUP1 at the GSD and an LA native, for sending this along.

Written by Matt Mayrl · Filed Under All Politics is Local: An Urban Policy Blog 

Matthew Mayrl is a second-year public policy student at the Harvard Kennedy School, and co-chair of the school's urban policy professional interest group. He enjoys places of density, diversity, functioning mass transit, dive bars, and good restaurants. An occasional contributor to the The Citizen, he looks forward to inculcating more people with the urban gospel through this blog.

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