Can retail parks be turned into proper mixed-use communities?

By Friedrich Ludewig2019-01-31T06:00:00

What do we want the retail experience of the future to be, and how do we want city centres of the future to look?

What do we want the retail experience of the future to be, and how do we want city centres of the future to look? Is there a future for retail parks? I hope not.

In the last 30 years, it has been easy for developers to get permission to build sheds with surface car parks by motorway junctions or on the ring roads of regional cities. I don’t think local councillors quite understood what they were doing to their urban high streets when they gave planning permission to these out-of-town developments that were neither uplifting nor civic.

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