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Conclusion: Vital and Viable?

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In this book, Mary Portas’ review of High Streets, commissioned by the British government in 2011, has been taken to encapsulate much that appears to be taken as axiomatic in current thinking about the High Street. In this review, she argued the British High Street was declining alarmingly. For her, this was about more than simply the shift of retailing out of town and online, concerning the decline of community, and the evisceration of urban life:

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Hubbard, P. (2017). Conclusion: Vital and Viable?. In: The Battle for the High Street. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52153-8_10

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