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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Big box"”.
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The Big Box Bill of Rights
… Inc. The ascendance of Walmart and similar big box developers during the latter part of the twentieth century instigated a profound transformation of Bentonville's city fabric, one that paralleled a larger makeover of the suburban landscape in North America. This thesis asserts that the …
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An Architectural Alternative to the Big Box
… businesses and traffic. The core concept of the "big box" store is not the problem. The idea of being able to get everything you need, from motor oil, to toothpaste, is appealing to consumers. The "one-stop-shopping" concept is not the problem; the big box design is. Retailers like Wal-Mart, …
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Redeveloping big box sites toward a more sustainable land use
… to indoor shopping centers, and more recently to big box superstores. As retail formats and markets continue to evolve, many older, less modem stores have suffered. Most recently, this trend has affected big boxes, creating an opportunity to reuse and re-image many of these sites. Vacant shopping …
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Thinking outside the big box : retailers look to America's inner cities
… thesis is to investigate to what extent national big box retailers are entering historically underserved markets in America's inner cities. This thesis will study the reasons for retail in underserved markets, determine to what extent retailers are willing to change their prototype formats to …
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How to best redevelop vacant big box retail property in Texas
… how a developer can best redevelop a vacant big box retail property. To accomplish this, statistical, geographical and demographical analysis was done on previously repositioned vacant big boxes. To make this project manageable, the timeline for this study was limited to properties …
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Agenda-Building in Local Land-Use Issues: Blacksburg Versus the Big Box
Like other communities across the country, Blacksburg, Virginia, has struggled with land-use policy, planning, and growth issues. This struggle intensified when town residents discovered a Walmart store might be included in a new retail development project. Local interest groups quickly formed, …
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Dr. StrangeBox or : how I learned to stop worrying and love urban big box retail
Over the past decade, Big Box retailers have been trying to tap into urban markets after years of explicitly avoiding them in favor of suburban environments. In the past few years, retailers have begun experimenting with new store models and layouts to better integrate into these urban …
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Buy the Book: Social Reproduction and the Middle-Class Family Outing to the Big-Box Bookstore
… dissertation is a qualitative ethnography of a big-box bookstore that considers the relationship between book consumption, status, and social reproduction. The study draws from five years of fieldwork starting with three years of participant observation at 45 sessions of the weekly Story Time, …
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Big box, no more quick fixes : a historical account of consumption, retail and discount shopping typologies
… entrenching us in this contemporary paradox. "Big box" is simply the latest product, produced and desired by a culture of consumption. It is my position that the public and our profession would be better served if the research uncovered the complexity of consumption and made the case, for or …
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Business innovation and regulatory enforcement: case studies of the big box retail industry and enforcement of RCRA
… and Recovery Act (RCRA) adapted to the Big Box business system innovation? Additionally, the study explored the possible nature of regulatory choke points that may emerge from the enforcement of RCRA in the Big Box retail system. This study used contingency theory to establish a …
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THE NUTRITION ENVIRONMENT IN RURAL SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE
… The mean availability score was highest in the "Big Box Stores" and lowest in the gas stations-convenience stores-food marts. Prices were generally the lowest in the "Big Box Stores" and highest in the grocery stores. The "Big Box Stores" had the best quality food items. Coordinating shopping …
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Life in the City: Housing, History and the Supermarket, an Episode in Urban Architecture
… how can one incorporate a suburban-scaled, 'big-box' retail structure in an existing, complex urban context. The proposal that follows offers an integrated, mixed-use and contextually sensitive solution, incorporating a full size grocery store (the most fundamental of our consumer needs) with …
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Last-mile network design for urban commodity distribution in Latin America
… of medium- and high-dropsize clients, hereafter 'big-box' customers. This Routing Problem (RP) is modeled as a special case of a Bin Packing Problem (BPP) combined with a customer clustering approach. However, given its high combinatorial complexity, two alternative methodologies, a two-step …
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Play-ground
… America and the rubber-stamping strategies of big-box retail which are disseminated throughout the American suburban landscape, this thesis attempts to recover the surface parking lot by equating park and parking in a double-loaded program of 100 % PARK / 100% PARKING. With cues from the …
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"GrizzlieTown" : public memory, urban competition, and the new Memphis Arena
… basketball arena. As its design suggests, this big-box facility will fall short in its potential for invigorating downtown spaces and will result in a loss of public memory. The publicly-funded and privately-owned arena will be largely inaccessible to the taxpayers who have chosen to fund it. …
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Collective spaces : a study in the conversion of storage to living spaces in City of Industry, California
… housing pressures. Furthermore, mappings of "big box" warehouse spaces within Industry revealed inefficiencies in storage practices and the potential for remaking the City into a more porous oasis of living/working. It would not only be made more porous simply in terms of providing mulit-use …
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Case studies on Route 1 : how the perceived identity of local commercial strips affects zoning
… often argued that highway strips, replete with big box retail and countless strip malls, are essentially placeless. It has also been argued that generic local zoning is largely to blame for existence and persistence of strips. While there may be some truth to these claims, every strip exists …
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Mega shed : regional rooms for the Orgman's City
… This thesis offers a modest proposal for big-box architecture, one capable of delivering continuity and flexibility for the city, even for programs that require functional separation. An exploration of this super-sized typology, the Mega-Shed demonstrates the timeless desire to manage the …
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MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF COMMODITY PRICE DYNAMICS
… over the past two decades by the expansion of big box stores and supercenters, the role played by such rapidly-expanding ‘big-box’ chain-stores like Wal-Mart in price convergence is completely over-looked in the literature. The possible symmetry in costs and mark-up among Wal-Mart stores, and …
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The missing middle : nascent potential in South Africa's commercial environment
… - the fact that there are a large number of big-box type shopping centres and a large number of small-scale micro-enterprises but very few retail buildings that are at a scale between these two. Practice: I was interested in the gap in the market for the provision of built-environment …
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