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the high street: a stage for global
crisis or a workshop for
reconstruction?
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in the beginning...
there was the agora
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the Wen: the agora becomes the sink
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the Garden City: escape from the Wen
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the Exodus: clone towns and ghost
towns
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‘There is a concern that the High Street shopping environment to
which society has grown accustomed... is changing and we are not sure whether we will like
either how it will change or what it will be changed to.’
John Dawson, 1988
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for the first time ever, less than half our retail floorspace
is in town centres
48%
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‘town centres first’ was only half right...
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‘In the UK, the free-standing, car-based, food superstore is
now the hegemonic retail format.’
Hallsworth et al, 2010
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the stage for global crisis #1: the end of
the renaissance?
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‘The most recent period of investment (2004-2008) saw the
emergence of the private investor seeking high returns from assets
held for very short periods of time... This “flipping” of assets has
led to chronic under investment in some centres.’
British Council of Shopping Centres, 2010
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the stage for global crisis #2: burning
and looting
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Bristol, May 2011: the ‘Tesco riot’
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Croydon, August 2011
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#riotcleanup, August 2011
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the stage for global crisis #3: economic
paradigm shift
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1982: last time UK trade in goods showed a surplus
76%: proportion of groceries sold by the big four supermarkets
23,000: number of UK retail jobs lost, October 2010 to September 2011
80m: number of additional jobs needed worldwide to return to pre-recession
levels
is this sustainable?
Sources: BIS, 2010; British Retail Consortium; Kantar WorldPanel; ILO
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four questions:
what future for ‘retail led regeneration’ when there’s no money to spend?
what future for resource-heavy goods in a resource-depleted world?
what future for buying when we’ve stopped making?
what future for place in cyberspace?
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back to the agora: a workshop for
rethinking civics
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from the Queen of Shops.... to a people’s republic?
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back to the
agora: new
reasons to go into town
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back to the agora: can
the markets work for
the people?
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by the people, for the people
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placemaking with dirty hands
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setting the scene for the next act
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four ways of thinking about getting the town centres we
want:
1 Footfall2 Satisfaction
3 Diversity4 Economic activity
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credits
The pictures are all Creative Commons or non-copyright. Thanks especially to:
Slide 17: Stringberd
Slide 18: Peter Trimming
Slide 19: Liam Barrington-Bush
Slide 22: Zach Inglis
Slide 25: Daddiochap
Slide 28: Katy Wrathall
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thank you
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