The Price of Sprawl: The Economics of a Walmart Store

How Big-Box Retail Shapes Our Cities, Devalues Land, and Fuels Urban Sprawl

Drive through any commercial corridor built in the last 50 years, and you’ll see the same soulless corporate outlets that could be found in any other part of “Anywhere, USA.” These big-box stores, surrounded by vast, empty parking lots and accessible only by car, have replaced the vibrant, walkable main streets of the past. This over-retailed, sprawling…