TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christensen,Julia
TI  - Big box reuse
SN  - 9780262270267
AV  - NA6227.D45 C46 2008eb
U1  - 725/.21 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Department stores
KW  - Remodeling for other use
KW  - United States
KW  - Stores, Retail
KW  - Grands magasins
KW  - Reconversion
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Magasins
KW  - ARCHITECTURE
KW  - Buildings
KW  - Public, Commercial & Industrial
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Architektur
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kaufhaus
KW  - Nutzungsänderung
KW  - Warenhaus
KW  - Sozialeinrichtung
KW  - Bibliothek
KW  - Schule
KW  - fast
KW  - USA
KW  - ARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/Modern Architecture
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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?
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