Wal-Mart (and its brethren)...
...are a huge force in shaping the spatial form of the USA -- and soon-enough other places as well. So a blog which focuses on the Wal-Mart phenomenon -- Always Low Prices--Always. -- ipso facto also illuminates a big actor in urban form.
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How about Bernice Thomas' work on the Kress dime stores?
http://www.sandlapper.org/kress.htm
Posted by: winifer skattebol | Apr 16, 2004 at 06:10 PM
Are there any Walmarts along highways?
Owen Gutfreund, Director of the Urabn Studies Program at Barnard/Columbia, just published
TWENTIETH CENTURY SPRAWL: HIGHWAYS AND THE RESHAPING OF THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE (Oxford University Press)
Posted by: winifer skattebol | Apr 19, 2004 at 06:50 PM