Big Box Housing Potential

This comes as nothing new to most of us, but the New York Times has observed that housing is being built above big box retail: http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?emc=tnt&tntget=2006/10/29/realestate/29box.html&tntemail0=y

Some of you may be familiar with this project by Lewis. Tsurumaki. Lewis that looked at the same issue, but in a suburban context: http://www.ltlwork.net/pages/portfolio/speculations/newsub.html

Actually it's not a bad precedent for many of you who are dealing with the logics and infrastructure of one landscape (Big Box retail and shelving in this case) and how it can be extended into another (Suburban housing on the roof).