UPGRADE AVAILABLE

“Upgrade Available is an extraordinary exploration of technology, time, and nature. Julia Christensen offers a terrifying and enlightening exposition of our relationship to material. She shows how we can transcend our culture of obsolescence and reach out to wrap other species in a matured sense of time. The book sparkles with insight and unexpected connections.”— David…

BIG BOX REUSE

Big Box ReuseMIT Press, 2008By Julia Christensen America is becoming a container landscape of big boxes connected by highways. When a big box store upsizes to an even bigger box “supercenter” down the road, it leaves behind more than the vacant shell of a retail operation; it leaves behind a changed landscape that can’t be…