TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christensen,Julia
TI  - Big box reuse
SN  - 0262033798
AV  - NA6227.D45 C46 2008
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
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-231); Pt. I; Center --; 1; The Nelson County Justice Center --; 2; The RPM Indoor Raceway --; 3; The Centralia Senior Resource Center --; Pt. II; Network --; 4; The Charter School --; 5; The Head Start Early Childhood Center --; Pt. III; Design --; 6; The Spam Museum --; 7; The Lebanon-Laclede County Library --; 8; The Calvary Chapel --; Pt. IV; Future --; 9; The St. Bernard Health Center --; 10; The Peddler's Mall
N2  - "In Big Box Reuse, Julia Christensen shows us how ten communities have addressed the problem of empty big box stores, 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 civic-minded structures. In each case, what was once a place to shop has become 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 it 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?"--BOOK JACKET
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