Commercial community: a better big box
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2007
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This Master's Degree Project examines the condition of the large-scale retail environment and its potential to net positive contribution to the public realm of the city. It challenges the notion of the "big-box" within its current context to provide more than a one-dimensional shopping experience, and become of succinct part of the urban experience. This design exploration, through analysis and synthesis, proposes a recalibration of the existing commercial components in order to create a diverse commercially based community that merges the pedestrian within an auto-centric culture. Through this recalibration of the key components that comprise the existing largeĀscale shopping environment - parking, scale, access - and those that provide a more human experience of public space - diversity, engagement, activity - a new application of the existing shopping typology is created; one of social and economic intensity.
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Bibliography: p. 62-63
Some pages are in colour.
Some pages are in colour.
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Loewenhardt, T. J. (2007). Commercial community: a better big box (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/1128