solarpunk-gnome:

bluelightning42:

Does anyone else really like the whole mall aesthetic (probably an 80′s/90′s kid thing) but instead of consumerism there’s micro-apartments, a whole lot more vegetation, and a commons area? Maybe with keeping the whole food court thing as a place for people to eat together.

That would be a sweet co-housing development. There are plenty of abandoned malls in a lot of cities, if I’m not mistaken. You’d probably have to re-zone, but if you did mixed-use then you could have some small grocery and handmade item stores. It would be like your own little micro-arcology. This is brilliant!

Photo credit: Prettyy!! Want! {Nature/ 1 of 3} by Debs (ò‿ó)♪

Also, you could turn a lot of the parking lot space back to greenspace.

Photo credit: Garden by Cuprikorn

And why not some stained glass skylights while we’re at it?

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And of course as long as we’re in the right climate we’ll power it with solar panels and heat/cool with a geothermal heat pump.

Photo credit: Solar Panels by Kevin Dooley