The battle for the high street : retail gentrification, class and disgust / Phil Hubbard.
Hubbard, Phil, author.
2017
HT178.G7
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Title The battle for the high street : retail gentrification, class and disgust / Phil Hubbard.
Author Hubbard, Phil, author.
ISBN 9781137521538 (electronic book)
1137521538 (electronic book)
9781137521521
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52153-8
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Item Number 10.1057/978-1-137-52153-8 doi
Call Number HT178.G7
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.34160941
Summary This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity. High streets are shown to have long been regarded as the heart of many communities, but have declined to a state where boarded-up and vacant retail units are a familiar sight in many British cities. The book argues that the policies deemed necessary to revive the fortunes of high streets are often thinly-veiled attacks on the tastes and cultures of the working class. Policy-makers often promote boutiques, art galleries and upmarket cafés at the expense of some of the outlets frequented by less affluent populations, including betting shops, fast food takeaways, discount stores and bargain booze outlets. Highlighting the social and cultural roles that so-called 'dying' high streets continue to play in the lives of working class and disadvantaged populations, this book provides a powerful argument against retail gentrification, and a timely analysis of class conflict in austerity Britain. It will be of great interest to scholars of geography, social policy and cultural studies.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Foreword. Gentrification and Retail Change
Chapter 1. The 'Death' of the High Street
Chapter 2. Going Out of Town
Chapter 3. Reviving the High Street
Chapter 4. 24-Hour Party People
Chapter 5. Sexing it Up
Chapter 6. Place Your Bets
Chapter 7. Fast Food, Slow Food
Chapter 8. Bohemia on the High Street
Chapter 9. Conclusion: Vital and Viable?.

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