Building Type Basics for Retail and Mixed–Use Facilities

The Building Type Basics series provides architects and other building team members with concise, essential information for planning and designing a variety of building types. Each volume includes a list of 20 fundamental questions routinely encountered in the early phases of the project commission. This volume focuses on structures supporting retail environments, including urban regeneration and renewal projects and town centers.

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Building Type Basics books provide architects, engineers, and facilities planners with the essentials they need to jump–start the design of a variety of specialized facilities. In each volume, leading national figures in the field address the key questions that shape the early phases of a project commission. The answers to these questions provide instant information in a convenient, easy–to–follow format. The result is an excellent, hands–on reference that puts critical information at your fingertips.

Building Type Basics for Retail and Mixed–Use Facilities offers a nuts–and–bolts guide to designing diverse and communal structures supporting retail and various combinations of retail and dining, entertainment, housing, and more. Complete with descriptive illustrations, this useful resource offers essential information, guidelines, and cautionary advice on such projects as shopping centers, urban regeneration/renewal projects, town centers, individual and freestanding stores, e–commerce, and mixed–use facilities.

Preface (Stephen A. Kliment).

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction.

2. The Evolution of Retailing.

3. Where People Shop.

4. Retail Store Planning.

5. Retail Store Design.

6. Planning for Retail and Mixed–Use Centers.

7. Design of Retail and Mixed–Use Complexes.

8. Building Systems for Retail Stores and Mixed–Use Centers.

9. The Future of Retail.

Glossary.

Bibliography and References.

Index.

The Jerde Partnership is a Southern California based urban planning and architecture firm. For more than twenty–five years, the firm has been developing approaches to designing more humanistic, multiuse public spaces. Founded in 1977 and based on the vision and ideas of Jon Adams Jerde, FAIA, the firm has pioneered an experiential approach to place making. Jerde s projects provide unique experiences with lasting social, cultural, and economic value. The firm is currently planning and designing large–scale, mixed–use projects in Asia, Europe, and North and South America.

STEPHEN A. KLIMENT, FAIA (Series Founder and Editor), is an architectural journalist and an adjunct professor at the City College of New York. He was chief editor of Architectural Record from 1990 to 1996.