Figures & data
Figure 1. Poplar high street then (a) and now (b).
Figure 2. While a few retail uses still hang-on on this high street, much of it is abandoned retail interspersed with residential. A future as a thriving high street seems unlikely.
Figure 3. The desirable (often invisible) high street mix (The Geoinformation Group, Map data @2020).
Figure 4. North east London showing the streets with greatest mix – the local high streets – with particular concentrations following the line of Roman roads out of the city to the north and east.
Figure 5. Japan’s shutter streets.
Figure 6. The sun model, conceptualizing shopping choices.
Figure 7. The journey from mixed, integrated and place-dependent to separated, disintegrated and non-place urbanism.
Figure 8. Outlet and place factors.
Figure 9. Spatial strategies for shopping streets.
Figure 10. Enriching versus prosaic factors.
Figure 11. Re-prioritizing street space in the short-term.
Figure 12. New cycle lanes, re-prioritizing street space permanently.
Figure 13. Ladder of retail curation.
Figure 14. Making strategic public investments in high streets.
Figure 15. A new public space at Passey place gives heart to the high street and provides a place for events and activities.
Figure 16. Redeveloping more marginal retail locations as housing.
Figure 17. The place attraction paradigm: place-based shopping choice factors against proactive intervention factors for traditional shopping streets (and indicative policy responses).
