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Wal Mart: New stratedy in urban scale for American downtowns

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

Wal Mart, which contains nation's largest private employers (1.2 million workers), sellers of retail goods($280 billion), and owner of corporate real estate(911 million square feet), is now locally and globally getting more dominant. Its simple but straight forward strategy is enough to make customers' pockets open and buy goods. However, these strategies are also getting bumped into the risks for high quality oriented markets which have been targeted for upper income class. Furthermore, on the reason that maintains enormously occupied box storage concept outside the town, Wal Mart is blamed for making the town more boundless and uncharacteristic as well as killing many retail shops in downtown. Architecturally. reconsidering Wal Mart to be more distinctively balancing to proper urban issues and practical designs is now more imperative than ever. Therefore, this thesis work will be new grope of possibilities of that Wal Mart can be futurally constructive being more friendly approached to the town and communities in a revitalization view of rural towns.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Architecture
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Architecture
Department dc:contributor.department
Architecture
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2007

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Lee, Jong Bum
Chairs dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Galloway, William U.
  • Jones, James R.
Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Rott, Hans Christian

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
etd-05012007-172034
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/32081

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citation

Lee, Jong Bum. Wal Mart: New stratedy in urban scale for American downtowns. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32081