<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c8d7c551-919e-4cc1-b67b-1bbe489cd223/3E06C037-F55B-44C7-A532-2CDE0D096B41/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/11/delightful_big_box_reuse_looks.html" href="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/11/delightful_big_box_reuse_looks.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cleveland.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/11/delightful_big_box_reuse_looks.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cleveland.com/img/4F1D0C63-DDB0-42AC-8872-DA7DC6498BB4" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/11/delightful_big_box_reuse_looks.html"><H1>Delightful 'Big Box Reuse' looks at how abandoned stores are being reinvented</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/11/delightful_big_box_reuse_looks.html"><P> Few writers who focus on the architecture and planning of cities take suburbia or small towns seriously. The tendency since World War II has been to scoff at life amid the outer loops as vacuous, spiritually empty, socially isolating, intellectually brain-dead and all around bad for your health. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/11/delightful_big_box_reuse_looks.html">In her delightful debut book on how communities across the country are reusing vacant big-box stores, Julia Christensen, an artist and Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor of the Emerging Arts at Oberlin College, plants herself firmly against this tradition.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/11/delightful_big_box_reuse_looks.html"><P>"Big Box Reuse" rests on the solid observation that while aging buildings everywhere have been "adaptively reused," most scholars and journalists have focused on historic buildings in downtowns, not relatively new buildings in suburbs. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3E06C037-F55B-44C7-A532-2CDE0D096B41/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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