Online references concerning big box stores

(image located on a Daily Dose of Architecture at http://archidose.blogspot.com/2006/07/half-dose-26-big-box-housing.html )

While researching for a series of blog entries on my blog, The Chaotic, Fractal and Complex City, dealing with the plight of big box stores (the initial blog entry was, “The coming collapse of 'Big Box' and department stores and their urban impact”) , I found some interesting
viewpoints across the Internet, representing a wide spectrum of perspectives.

American Independent Business Alliance, unknown date, “Impact of Big Box Development”, http://www.amiba.net/resources/studies-recommended-reading/impact-of-big-box-development

Amy Rose Dobson, Curbed, 8 September 2011, “Big Box Retail and Its Urban Planning Challenges,
http://dc.curbed.com/archives/2011/09/big-box-retail.php

Andrea Felsted, 23 August 2012, Financial Times, “Outside the big box”, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5e4c0d5e-ed00-11e1-9980-00144feab49a.html#axzz24n4k9URa

Kristin Dispenza, 20 April 2012, Buildapedia.com, “The Uncertain Fate of Big Box Stores”, http://buildipedia.com/in-studio/urban-planning/the-uncertain-fate-of-big-box-stores

Julia Christensen, 2009, Big Box Reuse, MIT Press (can be ordered at Amazon.com, http://www.amazon.com/Big-Box-Reuse-Julia-Christensen/dp/0262033798/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346510094&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=Bix+Box+Reuse_

Christopher Mathews, 24 May 2012, Time Business, “Are We Witnessing the Death of the Big Box Store”, http://business.time.com/2012/05/24/are-we-witnessing-the-death-of-the-big-box-store/?iid=biz-main-lede

Edward T. McMahon, 2 March 2011, Urbanland, “The Future of the Strip”, http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2011/Mar/McMahonStrip

Stacy Mitchell, 15 August 2012, Institute for Local Self Reliance,”Key Studies on Big-Box Retail and Independent Business”, http://www.ilsr.org/key-studies-walmart-and-bigbox-retail/

The Rumor Mill Reading Room, 7 August 2012, “The Death of Big Box Stores”,http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=248363

The Self Directed Investor, 10 March 2012, “Thursday Retail News: The Big Box Slims Down”,
http://www.selfdirectedinvestor.com/article/201103/thursday-retail-news-the-big-box-slims-down-thursdayretailn.htm/

Brian Ulrich, unknown date, webpage of Brian Ulrich (photographer),“Dark Stores”, http://notifbutwhen.com/projects/copia/dark-stores/