Description
| Product ID: | 9781914124303 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | High Street |
| Subtitle: | How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis |
| Authors: | Author: David Rudlin, Vicky Payne, Lucy Montague |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | City and town planning: architectural aspects, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Retail and wholesale industries, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Distributive industries, Urban & municipal planning, United Kingdom, Great Britain |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The high street is in crisis. How did we get here and what's next? This is the story of our towns and cities, and how they can adapt to change. The high street is in crisis. How did we get here and what happens next? The global pandemic has made the crisis immeasurably worse but it wasn’t the cause. The crisis was already raging in 2019 with thousands of store closures. Large retailers became complacent and failed to respond to changing consumer behaviour. Town centres are the victims of these changes rather than the cause of them. To understand the current crisis and how it might be addressed, this book takes a long view of retailing based on a hundred case studies. It looks at the way town centres responded to previous crises and explores current trends affecting town centres and how places are responding. The message is optimistic: adaptable town centres can once more become the diverse, characterful, independent places that existed before they were homogenised by big retail. Explore the past – understand the present – find a better future. |
| Imprint Name: | RIBA Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | RIBA Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-07-01 |