The Small Box Format of the Retail Pharmacy Chains

Sara Stevens is a first year Ph.D. student in Architecture at Princeton. She is a graduate of the Masters of Environmental Design Program at the Yale School of Architecture, and holds a B. Arch from Rice University. Her work focuses on the contemporary built environment, particularly expansive urban growth and the business and economic history of large companies that shape development. Her Masters' thesis, "Systems of Retail: The Bigger Box," includes a set of box-like building formats that she investigates for their historical context and impending effect on urban form—retail pharmacies, the self-storage industry, home improvement stores, and megaplex movie theaters.