The Battle for the High Street: Retail Gentrification, Class and Disgust

by Phil Hubbard

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113752152X
• ISBN13: 9781137521521
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.7"