I found this interesting map of where all the Walmart Stores in the United States are located. I learned that at any given time there are 350 of them abandoned. It seems that because they refuse to sell their property to their competitors, and because they end up competing with themselves by putting one on every block they create these gigantic asphalt "ghost malls".
In post peak oil times these monstrosity's can be stripped of their valuable scrap metal and perhaps turned into agricultural purposes. Check out
t h e U N p l a n n i n g J o u r n a l: What IS UNplanning?
for more ideas about what to do with these sort of places.
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
t h e U N p l a n n i n g J o u r n a l: What IS UNplanning?
Labels: cauldrons
Abandoned Walmart urban sprawl,
Suburbia
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