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Shopping Centres
Town shopping centres across the UK have been 're-designed' over the past few decades.
In many cases what that involved was tearing down Victorian era buildings and replacing them with modern shop fronts with identical fascias. So identical in fact that you could be forgiven for forgetting entirely which end of the country you were shopping in.
Hence the report earlier this month from the New Economics Foundation lamenting the forty percent of British towns that were clones of each other and naming poor old Exeter as the greatest offender of all.
But now the re-designers are having another go at our town centres. This is partly to do with planning restrictions which now exist to reduce out-of-town shopping centres.
But it is also, it is claimed, to do with the fact that we have fallen back in love with urban living.
The result has been to focus attention on neglected city centres, and indeed there's currently more going on there, across the country, than at any time for years. But will they get it right this time?
And has the air-conditioned, hermetically-sealed, shopping centre, had its day?
GUESTS
Tim Stoner
Space Syntax
Paul Finch
Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment (CABE)
Andrew Ogg
Leslie Jones Architects & British Council for Shopping Centres
Andrew Simms
New Economics Foundation
David Shaw
The Crown Estates
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