The high street: a stage for crisis, or workshop for reconstruction?
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As consumer spending shrinks and the way we shop changes, is the death of the high street an inevitable reflection of global crisis? Or do we now a chance to refashion the high street as a 21st century agora - a place for ideas, learning, leisure and civic involvement that will generate new markets? See this post for more: http://urbanpollinators.co.uk/?page_id=1028
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The high street: a stage for crisis, or workshop for reconstruction?
- 1. the high street: a stage for global crisis or a workshop for reconstruction?
- 3. in the beginning... there was the agora
- 5. the Wen: the agora becomes the sink
- 7. the Garden City: escape from the Wen
- 8. the Exodus: clone towns and ghost towns
- 10. ‘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
- 11. 48% for the first time ever, less than half our retail floorspace is in town centres
- 12. ‘town centres first’ was only half right...
- 13. ‘In the UK, the free-standing, car-based, food superstore is now the hegemonic retail format.’ Hallsworth et al, 2010
- 14. the stage for global crisis #1: the end of the renaissance?
- 15. ‘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
- 16. the stage for global crisis #2: burning and looting
- 17. Bristol, May 2011: the ‘Tesco riot’
- 20. the stage for global crisis #3: economic paradigm shift
- 21. 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
- 23. 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?
- 24. back to the agora: a workshop for rethinking civics
- 25. from the Queen of Shops.... to a people’s republic?
- 26. back to the agora: new reasons to go into town
- 27. back to the agora: can the markets work for the people?
- 28. by the people, for the people
- 29. placemaking with dirty hands
- 30. setting the scene for the next act
- 31. four ways of thinking about getting the town centres we want: 1 Footfall 2 Satisfaction 3 Diversity 4 Economic activity
- 32. 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
- 33. thank you more from me... www.urbanpollinators.co.uk my blog: Living with Rats Twitter: @juliandobson