LEADER 04307oam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910782563203321 005 20190503073346.0 010 $a0-262-27026-9 010 $a1-4356-8172-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000576597 035 $a(OCoLC)659287630 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10256726 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000111339 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11140929 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000111339 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10080762 035 $a(PQKB)11515352 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338958 035 $a(OCoLC)289011490$z(OCoLC)642464767$z(OCoLC)659287630$z(OCoLC)961534619$z(OCoLC)962631099$z(OCoLC)988405236$z(OCoLC)992033593$z(OCoLC)992107768$z(OCoLC)1037440981$z(OCoLC)1037915605$z(OCoLC)1038692582$z(OCoLC)1045472630$z(OCoLC)1055314122$z(OCoLC)1065131782$z(OCoLC)1081284668$z(OCoLC)1083557866 035 $a(OCoLC-P)289011490 035 $a(MaCbMITP)7560 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338958 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10256726 035 $a(OCoLC)289011490 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000576597 100 $a20081219d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBig box reuse /$fJulia Christensen 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-03379-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-231). 327 $aAcknowledgments -- 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. 330 $aWhat 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? 606 $aDepartment stores$xRemodeling for other use$zUnited States 606 $aStores, Retail$xRemodeling for other use$zUnited States 610 $aARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/Modern Architecture 615 0$aDepartment stores$xRemodeling for other use 615 0$aStores, Retail$xRemodeling for other use 676 $a725/.21 700 $aChristensen$b Julia$0880382 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782563203321 996 $aBig box reuse$93727034 997 $aUNINA