Expert Q&A: Class Consciousness
May 1, 2006, Ross B Glickman
RT: How concerned should the industry be about the decline of the middle class? The industry should be very concerned. The middle class is getting squeezed....
Funny Pages
May 1, 2006
BAM! goes the Food Court Food good food has soared to superstar status, and where we eat had better be well-designed. Celebrity chefs, 24-hour cable stations...
Goodbye Single-Use
May 1, 2006, By Yaromir Steiner
The traditional regional mall is being replaced by mixed-use urban patterned open-air town centers...
EXPERT Q&A: Count On Me
Apr 1, 2006, By Bill Martin
How do you track shoppers? Our technology uses a digital video counter with embedded chip-based intelligence. A small device is mounted over a retailer's...
EXPERT Q&A: A fad? No way.
Mar 1, 2006, By Yaromir Steiner
Retail Traffic is launching a new feature. Every month we will pick the brain of an industry expert on a pressing topic. This month, we took questions...
EXPERT ANALYSIS: Watching Your Back
Feb 1, 2006, BY TARA A. SCANLON
Cotenancy, once only used by tenants to assure concessions or even the right to terminate a lease if an anchor leaves a mall, are increasingly found in...
EXPERT ANALYSIS: Renewing New Orleans
Jan 1, 2006, BY RACHELLE LEVITT
After a week-long visit to Hurricane Katrina-battered New Orleans in November, a group of more than 50 Urban Land Institute members, of which I was one,...
Concrete Results
Nov 1, 2005, By Vance Pool
Wal-Mart gets a lot of bad press. But lost in those stories is the positive impact the innovative retail giant has had on consumers and the competitive...
EXPERT ANALYSIS: The Suicide Bomber
Sep 1, 2005, BY STEVE FILYO AND LEO WEST
Following the recent suicide bomb attacks in London, security personnel in America's private and public sector agencies should be preparing for the further...
EXPERT ANALYSIS: Mixed-Use Density Yields Urban Excitement
Aug 1, 2005, By Robert L. Stark
Since the 1950s, suburbia has been enticing people away from cities with the promise of green and uncluttered space. As eager new suburbanites began experiencing...
