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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Big-Box Retail"”.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Intermediacy : extracting vitality from intersecting borderlines
… modern lives, such as convenient infrastructure, big box retail stores, and corporate offices, which only return indifferent and ordinary experiences. Are the intermediate areas in the faith of being indifferent? What does it mean to be vital in those areas? This thesis seeks an approach to …
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The Big Box Bill of Rights
… mountain town into home of the world's largest retailer: Wal-Mart Stores, 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 …
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Transurbane Konsumräume : Typologie und Ästhetik großflächiger Einzelhandelsaggregate in der deutschen Zwischenstadt unter besonderer Berücksichtigung gebauter Beispiele von 1990 bis 2007
… caused by the suburbanization of large-scale retail facilities. This fundamental study gives the first comprehensive and coherent account of transurban spaces formed by retail aggregations as seen from the point of view of architects and urban planners. The study bases on three columns …