Main entry:

Christensen, Julia.

Title & Author:

Big box reuse / Julia Christensen.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.

Description:

viii, 231 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-231).
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Center -- The Nelson County Justice Center -- The RPM Indoor Raceway -- Centralia Senior Resource Center -- Network -- The Charter School -- The Head Start Early Childhood Center -- Design -- The Spam Museum -- The Lebanon-Laclede County Library -- The Calvary Chapel -- Future -- The St. Bernard Medical Center -- The Peddler's Mall -- Notes.
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Summary:

America is becoming a container landscape of big boxes connected by highways. When a big box store upsizes to an even bigger box "supercenter" down the road, it leaves behind more than the vacant shell of a retail operation; it leaves behind a changed landscape that can't be changed back. Acres of land have been paved around it. Highway traffic comes to it; local roads end at it. With thousands of empty big box stores spread across America, these vistas have become a dominant feature of the American landscape. In Big Box Reuse, Julia Christensen shows us how ten communities have addressed this problem, turning vacated Wal-Marts and Kmarts into something else: a church, a library, a school, a medical center, a courthouse, a recreation center, a museum, or other more civic-minded structures. In each case, what was once a shopping destination becomes a center of community life. Christensen crisscrossed America identifying these projects, then photographed, videotaped, and interviewed the people involved. The first-person accounts and color photographs of Big Box Reuse reveal the hidden stories behind the transformation of these facades into gateways of community life. Whether a big box store becomes a "Senior Resource Center" or a museum devoted to Spam (the kind that comes in a can), each renovation displays a community's resourcefulness and creativity--but also raises questions about how big box buildings affect the lives of communities. What does it mean for us and for the future of America if the spaces of commerce built by a few monolithic corporations become the sites where education, medicine, religion, and culture are dispensed wholesale to the populace?

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ISBN:

9780262033794 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262033798 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Department stores Remodeling for other use United States.
Stores, Retail Remodeling for other use United States.
Grands magasins Reconversion États-Unis.
Magasins Reconversion États-Unis.
Architektur
Kaufhaus
Nutzungsänderung
Warenhaus
Sozialeinrichtung
Shopping malls Remodeling for other use United States.
Bibliothek.
Schule.
USA Kaufhaus.
United States.
USA

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259582
Call No.: BIB 190490
Status: Available