Phil Hubbard: The Battle for the High Street

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Cover: 9781349705528 | The Battle for the High Street | Phil Hubbard | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Phil Hubbard is Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Kent, UK. He is author of several books including Cities and Sexualities (2012), City (2006), People and Place (2001), and The Entrepreneurial City (1998). His research has shed new light on the understanding of social exclusion, marginalization and displacement by showing how urban restructuring profoundly shapes and influences contemporary social life.

Zusammenfassung

Offers a timely analysis of the status of high streets in austerity Britain

Provokes debate about the social and cultural roles of retail outlets, taking class as an important perspective

Draws on original research conducted in several UK towns

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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?.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	272
Inhalt:	x 260 S. 1 farbige Illustr. 260 p. 1 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9781349705528
ISBN-10:	1349705527
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-1-349-70552-8
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hubbard, Phil
Auflage:	1st ed. 2017
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Maße:	210 x 148 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Phil Hubbard
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.01.2019
Gewicht:	0,356 kg

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