![]() High streets are about far more than retail and are far more resilient than you might believe from the headlines. ![]() As for the future, despite (or perhaps because) research from Savills suggests that the UK has up to 40% more retail space than it can support, the book concludes optimistically. Today it is far more a crisis of big retail than a failure of places. It considers the history of UK high streets, and notes that the current crisis is nothing new high streets have been in a state of almost perpetual distress since the birth of self service shopping in the 1950s. ![]() The book High Street is the story of a two-year research project looking at 100 high streets – fascinating, emotive and revealing places that are inextricably woven into our lives and our built environments. Everyone has a childhood high street memory don’t they? Mine is being allowed to get Pick and Mix at the Llandudno branch of Woolworths (RIP) on the odd family Saturday shopping trip.
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