Sign up to Nebula to support this channel and watch Nebula Originals like "Abolish Everything!" https://go.nebula.tv/notjustbikes Watch this video ad-free and sponsor free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-these-ugly-big-box-stores-are-literally-bankrupting-cities Buy a Nebula gift card (now with iDEAL!): https://gift.nebula.tv/notjustbikes Patreon: https://patreon.com/notjustbikes Mastodon: @notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com NJB Live (my live-streaming channel): https://youtube.com/@njblive ---- Relevant Videos Strong Towns Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa The Strong Towns Growth Ponzi Scheme https://youtu.be/7IsMeKl-Sv0 Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math (Urban3) https://youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI --- References & Further Reading Strong Towns https://strongtowns.org https://youtube.com/@strongtowns Urban3 https://www.urbanthree.com/ Big-Box Swindle - Stacy Mitchell https://stacymitchell.com/front-page/ Big box stores are costing our cities far more than we ever imagined https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/11/3/big-box-stores-are-costing-our-cities-far-more-than-we-ever-imagined Big Box Urbanism https://www.newgeography.com/content/004887-big-box-urbanism Rolling Back the Property Tax Payments https://www.corp-research.org/e-letter/rolling-back-property-tax-payments https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/docs/pdf/walmartproptax.pdf Dark Store Theory of Value https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/archive/2017/february/dark-store.php https://irglobal.com/article/dark-store-theory-is-still-an-issue/ https://www.csg.org/2022/10/18/dark-store-theory-how-states-are-addressing-retail-property-taxes/ https://mml.org/advocacy/advocacy-dark-stores-dark-stores-q-and-a/ https://ilsr.org/articles/dark-store-tax-tactic-makes-big-box-stores-terrible-deal-for-cities/ https://publicdocs.courts.mi.gov:81/opinions/final/coa/20140422_c314111_70_314111.opn.pdf Walmart Tax Evasion https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/walmart-tax-evasion-luxembourg/ https://americansfortaxfairness.org/files/TheWalmartWeb-June-2015-FINAL1.pdf https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/17/walmart-hid-76bn-of-assets-in-foreign-tax-havens-new-study-claims The Walmart Effect https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/walmart-prices-poverty-economy/681122/ Walmart Supercenters and Monopsony Power: How a Large, Low-Wage Employer Impacts Local Labor Markets https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e0fdcef27e0945c43fab131/t/658e09c4c7f8563efb2a60fe/1703807458668/JustinCWiltshire_JMP.pdf Old Penny's Building, Asheville - John Warner https://www.pubintproj.com/project/old-penneys-building/ McAllen Library https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/7/15/the-mcallen-main-library-a-model-for-big-box-retrofit-or-not http://www.mcallenlibrary.net/about/newmain https://99percentinvisible.org/article/ghost-boxes-reusing-abandoned-big-box-superstores-across-america/ https://medium.com/@peak/the-ghost-stores-of-walmart-47f918f99f9d Abandoned Walmart photos (CC BY 2.0 or Public Domain) By Kirjtc2 at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Liftarn using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11911811 By Brave New Films from United States - Hamilton County, Tennessee abandoned store Uploaded by xnatedawgx, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7628471 By Brave New Films from United States - Abandoned La Junta Wal-Mart, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7628260 By Brave New Films from United States - Laramie, WY Formerly store #142 Uploaded by xnatedawgx, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7628808 By Brave New Films from United States - 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