How to Save Our Town Centres
A radical agenda for the future of high streets
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Written in an engaging and accessible style, How to save our town centres asks whether the internet has killed our high streets and how the relationship between people and places is changing, how business is done and who benefits, and how the use and ownership of land affects us all.
Has the age of the internet killed our high streets? Have our town and city centres become obsolete?
How to Save Our Town Centres delves below the surface of empty buildings and ‘shop local’ campaigns to focus on the real issues: how the relationship between people and places is changing; how business is done and who benefits; and how the use and ownership of land affects us all.
Written in an engaging and accessible style and illustrated with numerous original interviews, the book sets out a comprehensive and coherent agenda for long-term, citizen-led change. It will be a valuable resource for policymakers and researchers in planning, architecture and the built environment, economic development and community participation.
Julian Dobson is a writer, researcher, and speaker on towns, cities and social policy. He is director of Urban Pollinators Ltd (www.urbanpollinators.co.uk), a practical think tank which helps people work through complex and challenging issues about placemaking, regeneration and society.
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