Get The Battle for the High Street: Retail Gentrification, Class PDF

By Phil Hubbard

ISBN-10: 113752152X

ISBN-13: 9781137521521

This publication analyses the social and cultural prestige of excessive streets within the age of recession and austerity. excessive streets are proven to have lengthy been considered as the guts of many groups, yet have declined to a kingdom the place boarded-up and vacant retail devices are a well-recognized sight in lots of British towns. The book argues that the guidelines deemed essential to revive the fortunes of excessive streets are frequently thinly-veiled assaults at the tastes and cultures of the operating type. Policy-makers usually advertise boutiques, paintings galleries and upmarket cafés on the fee of a few of the shops frequented via much less prosperous populations, together with making a bet outlets, quickly foodstuff takeaways, shops and discount booze outlets.

Highlighting the social and cultural roles that so-called 'dying' excessive streets proceed to play within the lives of operating category and deprived populations, this e-book presents a robust argument opposed to retail gentrification, and a well timed research of sophistication clash in austerity Britain. will probably be of significant curiosity to students of geography, social coverage and cultural studies.

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