Adaptive Reuse of the Big Box Store - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adaptive Reuse of the Big Box Store write by Mark C. Roderick. This book was released on 2009. Adaptive Reuse of the Big Box Store available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition
Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition write by Ellen Dunham-Jones. This book was released on 2011-03-23. Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places. While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and academics to development in urban cores and new neighborhoods on the periphery of cities, there has been little attention to the redesign and redevelopment of existing suburbs. The authors, both architects and noted experts on the subject, show how development in existing suburbs can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changed demographic, technological, and economic conditions. Retrofitting Suburbia was named winner in the Architecture & Urban Planning category of the 2009 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards) awarded by The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers
Big Box Reuse
Big Box Reuse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big Box Reuse write by Julia Christensen. This book was released on 2008. Big Box Reuse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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?
Meeting the Big-box Challenge
Meeting the Big-box Challenge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meeting the Big-box Challenge write by Jennifer Evans-Cowley. This book was released on 2006. Meeting the Big-box Challenge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Big-box retail is here to stay. How can planners avoid the pitfalls and take advantage of the opportunities presented by these commercial behemoths? This report explains the planning, design, and regulatory techniques that have been used by communities and the companies themselves to find solutions that meet the needs of citizens and retailers. It describes the types of big-box retailers and provides definitions from zoning ordinances. It covers planning concerns such as aesthetics and traffic generation, as well as big-box stores' affects on local economies. With examples of everything from design control to demolition bonds to adaptive reuse, the report shows how communities around the country are responding to the rise of the big box.
Opening the Big Box
Opening the Big Box - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opening the Big Box write by Ariel Elizabeth Cohn. This book was released on 2012. Opening the Big Box available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Adaptive reuse is a process that adapts old structures for new uses while retaining their historic or unique features. With today's economy many buildings are beginning to sit vacant, with more and more being big box stores and strip malls that have moved onto a new space. Many times these buildings are left to sit empty until demolition or on the off chance another store inhabits them. The vast, empty parking lots along with the ordinary facades of these stores create an eyesore for the community. As architects there is a responsibility to turn this generic architecture into something special and useful for the community. Demolition followed by new construction would be an easy answer to the abandonment issue. A better solution is to begin to think outside of the box to the reuse of these properties for a variety of solutions. Although there is no historic significance or architectural value there are many benefits to reinventing these boxes. The reuse of these buildings extends the life of the big box, minimizing waste and the need for new construction resources. By retaining the existing structure, new buildings can be made for less money and enhance the sustainability of a project. Aside from just looking at the program within a building the site provides opportunities to help develop this once suburban ideal. A building placed in the center of a lot surrounded by parking can be turned into a community featuring a park, urban farming, or infilled to create a dense community network. Designs for these sites should improve the economy, community, and visual impact of former Walmarts through various ideas. Using a set of parameters that can be applied to any of the early to mid 90's Walmart Supercenters around the world, a solution was to be created for the ghostbox epidemic. For the purpose of this thesis, a former Walmart at 8709 JW Clay Blvd in Charlotte was used to create a prototype. This design is meant to be an example of how similar Big Box stores could be examined and modified to create an opportunity to reprogram the store and site in any number of abandoned big box sites.
