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Planning for RetailHarders, Marian B. 30 August 2004 (has links)
This paper is about retail development and its impact on local and regional communities. As the Big-box phenomena continues to play out in the 21st century, planning departments across the nation have been called to action with respect to addressing negative aspects of retail development. The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of retail, by tracing the evolving retail form and applying critical analysis to planning practices that no longer safeguard community interests in relation to retail industry initiatives. Specifically, this paper discusses issues that shape the social, economic and physical design of urban life. To that end, this paper reflects on the impact of retail and offers guidelines for resolving potential community/retail conflicts. / Master of Urban and Regional Planning
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BEYOND THE (re) DECORATED SHED: EXPLORING ALTERNATIVE METHODS FOR BIG BOX REUSERUTLEDGE, KEVAN FOSTER January 2006 (has links)
No description available.
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Impacts of big box development on minority and low-income communities : big box location and spatial equity in AustinPark, Jeong Il 20 November 2013 (has links)
Despite its close proximity to downtown, East Austin is one of the
underprivileged and under-developed areas in the City of Austin. Ethnic minorities and
low-income persons in inner-city areas often lack access to big box retail due to these
stores being disproportionately located outside of their neighborhoods. The aim of this
study is to identify the current accessibility of big box retail for East Austin’s residents in
order to confirm the potential impacts of big box retail growth on minority and lowincome
populations. Using GIS-based network analysis, it is possible to measure whether
the residents in East Austin have equal access to big box retail stores, as compare to other
Austin areas. Although residents in East Austin have greater accessibility to other
neighborhood-type retail like drug stores, small-format value stores, and supermarkets,
they must travel farther to access community-type retail like home improvement stores,department stores, large-format value stores. Moreover, these populations have access to
fewer cars, and must rely on public transit. Socio-economic characteristics of East Austin
include a high percentage of individuals living below the poverty line, high disability
rates, low to no vehicle ownership, and high percentages of female headed households.
Finally, the study proposes new mixed-use, mixed-income development models as a way
to improve retail access to minority and low-income population. / text
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An Affordable Living CommunityRichardson, Erin 27 April 2010 (has links)
Beginning with a former grocery store building, “An Affordable Living Community,” explores the possibilities of redesigning big box buildings. Here, the building is transformed into an affordable living community - a place for people to live, work, learn, and interact. The renovation creates a place for not only its residents, but also the surrounding neighborhoods. The building provides the challenges of breaking the generic, window-less facade, as well as bringing light into the building. This model would encourage the health, learning, and support of its community.
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Walmart 2.0Huff, Ian S. January 2012 (has links)
Processes of industry and economic exchange have significantly and continually defined the
underlying structure and formal characteristics of the American city. Contemporary ‘distributed’
systems of economy and industry rely on the movement of goods produced in distant locations
(often overseas) to their eventual point of consumption. This has created a fundamental spatial
disconnect between production, manufacturing, and consumption within the city; where local
economies often have no relationship with the production or subsequent economic benefit of
the goods they consume. As these contemporary systems of industrial production are often reliant
on Just-In-Time operational models, the speed and turnover of consumption have become
the dominant metrics of economic success. Productive industrial entities and territory, once
ingrained in the inhabited city fabric have gradually disappeared; leaving behind smooth, frictionless
surfaces of retail, logistics, and service, lacking a social viscosity, and consideration for the
public dimension of the city.
This thesis argues that Walmart, the archetypal big-box retailer, forms today’s dominant
industrial actor; significantly influencing the socio-economic, cultural, and physical configurations
of the American city. First, Walmart’s current distributed operational model is analyzed to
better understand and contextualize the connections between industry, production, consumption,
and urbanization. The next sections speculate upon the long-term social, economic, and
environmental sustainability of Walmart’s strategy; while examining the links between social
interaction, idea exchange, innovation, and physical proximity within the city. As a result of
many factors, including rising energy costs, this project predicts, and then explores a future where
distributed operational models are no longer viable. This thesis predicts a subsequent transformation
in manufacturing and consumption within the United States; linked to a resurgence in
domestic production, by emerging micro-production formats. This scenario, coupled with a
stated goal or mandate by Walmart to reduce overall supply chain energy expenditure, presents a unique opportunity for a speculative, opportunistic architecture within the American city.
Walmart 2.0 radically reconsiders Walmart’s existing operational model and related built
infrastructures, in the creation of a new industrial system that seeks to re-inject systems of consumption,
production, and exchange, back into the urban fabric. Walmart becomes an ‘open’,
‘for-hire’ underlying facilitator for the production, consumption, and movement of goods
between local nodes of economy, using their existing expertise in logistical, territorial, and data
management. As such, Walmart 2.0 acts as a physical and systemic platform for self-organising
production and market exchanges that are facilitated, but not controlled by Walmart. A
redevelopment of the generic Walmart Supercenter creates a system of participation; where local
communities of Walmart 2.0 users both create and consume the content flowing through the
Walmart 2.0 system; allowing these communities to engage in the economies of their own locale.
Broadly, Walmart 2.0 seeks to provoke the emergence of an urban fabric with an engrained
sensitivity towards human interactions in relation to systems of production, consumption and
exchange. Further, the project seeks to illustrate a method of operation, through which architects
may gain an increased agency within the powerful industrial systems shaping the underlying
structure of the contemporary city; a method based on the analysis of existing industrial actors,
and speculating upon their future transformations with a heightened social consideration.
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Walmart 2.0Huff, Ian S. January 2012 (has links)
Processes of industry and economic exchange have significantly and continually defined the
underlying structure and formal characteristics of the American city. Contemporary ‘distributed’
systems of economy and industry rely on the movement of goods produced in distant locations
(often overseas) to their eventual point of consumption. This has created a fundamental spatial
disconnect between production, manufacturing, and consumption within the city; where local
economies often have no relationship with the production or subsequent economic benefit of
the goods they consume. As these contemporary systems of industrial production are often reliant
on Just-In-Time operational models, the speed and turnover of consumption have become
the dominant metrics of economic success. Productive industrial entities and territory, once
ingrained in the inhabited city fabric have gradually disappeared; leaving behind smooth, frictionless
surfaces of retail, logistics, and service, lacking a social viscosity, and consideration for the
public dimension of the city.
This thesis argues that Walmart, the archetypal big-box retailer, forms today’s dominant
industrial actor; significantly influencing the socio-economic, cultural, and physical configurations
of the American city. First, Walmart’s current distributed operational model is analyzed to
better understand and contextualize the connections between industry, production, consumption,
and urbanization. The next sections speculate upon the long-term social, economic, and
environmental sustainability of Walmart’s strategy; while examining the links between social
interaction, idea exchange, innovation, and physical proximity within the city. As a result of
many factors, including rising energy costs, this project predicts, and then explores a future where
distributed operational models are no longer viable. This thesis predicts a subsequent transformation
in manufacturing and consumption within the United States; linked to a resurgence in
domestic production, by emerging micro-production formats. This scenario, coupled with a
stated goal or mandate by Walmart to reduce overall supply chain energy expenditure, presents a unique opportunity for a speculative, opportunistic architecture within the American city.
Walmart 2.0 radically reconsiders Walmart’s existing operational model and related built
infrastructures, in the creation of a new industrial system that seeks to re-inject systems of consumption,
production, and exchange, back into the urban fabric. Walmart becomes an ‘open’,
‘for-hire’ underlying facilitator for the production, consumption, and movement of goods
between local nodes of economy, using their existing expertise in logistical, territorial, and data
management. As such, Walmart 2.0 acts as a physical and systemic platform for self-organising
production and market exchanges that are facilitated, but not controlled by Walmart. A
redevelopment of the generic Walmart Supercenter creates a system of participation; where local
communities of Walmart 2.0 users both create and consume the content flowing through the
Walmart 2.0 system; allowing these communities to engage in the economies of their own locale.
Broadly, Walmart 2.0 seeks to provoke the emergence of an urban fabric with an engrained
sensitivity towards human interactions in relation to systems of production, consumption and
exchange. Further, the project seeks to illustrate a method of operation, through which architects
may gain an increased agency within the powerful industrial systems shaping the underlying
structure of the contemporary city; a method based on the analysis of existing industrial actors,
and speculating upon their future transformations with a heightened social consideration.
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Non-Place (Making): The Big Box De-form-edBecker, Micaela 28 June 2021 (has links)
No description available.
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Small Business Profitability Strategies During Retail GentrificationSmith, JaLysa 01 January 2017 (has links)
Small business owners can suffer fluctuations in profitability during the entrance of big box stores within their neighborhood that grab market share with more recognizable brands and change the retail environment. A multiple case study was completed to explore the strategies small business owners use to stay profitable during retail gentrification, looking specifically at the neighborhoods of Adams Morgan and Congress Heights in Washington, DC. Porter's five forces and the resource-based view served as the conceptual framework for the study. Seven small business owners with over 80 years of experience in their locations provided input through semistructured interviews and identified effects of gentrification on their neighborhoods and strategies they used to combat retail gentrification. The thematic approach to data analysis was used to organically code the data based upon reoccurring themes. As a result, 5 strategies were identified within the data: pricing, advertising, customer acquisition, shopkeeper mentality, and neighborhood engagement. The results of this study might provide small business owners with a toolkit of strategies to assist in staying profitable during a time of change. The implications for social change include the potential for maintaining small business profitability during gentrification, encouraging entrepreneurship, employing local residents, and retaining the authentic culture of the neighborhood.
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The impact of big box retailing on the future of rural SME retail businesses: a case study of the South Taranaki districtStockwell, Donald January 2009 (has links)
Many rural districts are facing economic decline because of a range of factors such as demographic change, changing socio-economic development patterns, farm amalgamations, the entry of large retail businesses, the so called ‘Big Box Retailing’ (BBRs), and a decline in rural infrastructure investment. These factors in turn affect the viability of many small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which are the primary employers and the engines for economic growth and employment in rural districts. The combined effect of these processes is that many rural districts struggle to keep young people, maintain economic and social diversity and attract new settlers and investment. This thesis seeks to answer the question as to how large scale retail businesses, rural farm amalgamations and declining rural populations impact on the viability of SME retail businesses in rural areas. In order to answer this question, this study identifies the key factors, which affect the future viability of small-to-medium sized retail businesses in sparsely populated rural districts using the South Taranaki District as a case study. The role of economic development agencies and district councils is also examined using case studies of small towns in rural districts of Australia and the United States of America (USA). This study found a number of factors affect the future viability of small-to-medium sized retail businesses in sparsely populated rural districts. For the South Taranaki district, these factors include the arrival of large-scale supermarkets, followed by large scale retail chains such as The Warehouse. These factors, combined with changing rural population structures and economic ‘spikes’ relating to sporadic energy development, have significant implications for the long term viability of many SMEs in the district. Case studies of similar rural districts in the USA and Australia provided examples of strategies that could be used to manage these impacts. This thesis recommends policies, initiatives and strategies that may be considered by territorial local authorities, regional councils and central governments to help address the economic development challenges facing rural districts.
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The impact of big box retailing on the future of rural SME retail businesses: a case study of the South Taranaki districtStockwell, Donald January 2009 (has links)
Many rural districts are facing economic decline because of a range of factors such as demographic change, changing socio-economic development patterns, farm amalgamations, the entry of large retail businesses, the so called ‘Big Box Retailing’ (BBRs), and a decline in rural infrastructure investment. These factors in turn affect the viability of many small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which are the primary employers and the engines for economic growth and employment in rural districts. The combined effect of these processes is that many rural districts struggle to keep young people, maintain economic and social diversity and attract new settlers and investment. This thesis seeks to answer the question as to how large scale retail businesses, rural farm amalgamations and declining rural populations impact on the viability of SME retail businesses in rural areas. In order to answer this question, this study identifies the key factors, which affect the future viability of small-to-medium sized retail businesses in sparsely populated rural districts using the South Taranaki District as a case study. The role of economic development agencies and district councils is also examined using case studies of small towns in rural districts of Australia and the United States of America (USA). This study found a number of factors affect the future viability of small-to-medium sized retail businesses in sparsely populated rural districts. For the South Taranaki district, these factors include the arrival of large-scale supermarkets, followed by large scale retail chains such as The Warehouse. These factors, combined with changing rural population structures and economic ‘spikes’ relating to sporadic energy development, have significant implications for the long term viability of many SMEs in the district. Case studies of similar rural districts in the USA and Australia provided examples of strategies that could be used to manage these impacts. This thesis recommends policies, initiatives and strategies that may be considered by territorial local authorities, regional councils and central governments to help address the economic development challenges facing rural districts.
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