Big Box Reuse

by Julia Christensen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262033798
• ISBN13: 9780262033794
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher