04313nam 2200601 a 450 991045418430332120200520144314.00-262-27026-91-4356-8172-X(CKB)1000000000576597(OCoLC)659287630(CaPaEBR)ebrary10256726(SSID)ssj0000111339(PQKBManifestationID)11140929(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000111339(PQKBWorkID)10080762(PQKB)11515352(MiAaPQ)EBC3338958(OCoLC)289011490(OCoLC)642464767(OCoLC)659287630(OCoLC)961534619(OCoLC)962631099(OCoLC)988405236(OCoLC)992033593(OCoLC)992107768(OCoLC)1037440981(OCoLC)1037915605(OCoLC)1038692582(OCoLC)1045472630(OCoLC)1055314122(OCoLC)1065131782(OCoLC)1081284668(OCoLC)1083557866(OCoLC-P)289011490(MaCbMITP)7560(Au-PeEL)EBL3338958(CaPaEBR)ebr10256726(OCoLC)289011490(EXLCZ)99100000000057659720080213d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBig box reuse[electronic resource] /Julia ChristensenCambridge, Mass. MIT Pressc20081 online resource (240 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-262-03379-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.What happens to the landscape, to community, and to the population when vacated big box stores are turned into community centers, churches, schools, and libraries? 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?Department storesRemodeling for other useUnited StatesStores, RetailRemodeling for other useUnited StatesElectronic books.Department storesRemodeling for other useStores, RetailRemodeling for other use725/.21Christensen Julia880382MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454184303321Big box reuse1965788UNINA