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May 2021 – Journal Articles page updated with two new academic papers in Planning, Theory and Practice, and Sustainability, joining our Ageing & Society paper
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- Retail change and why we fell in love with supermarkets?
- Grocery Market Shares in the UK 2020
- How is Coronavirus affecting the UK's Retail Sector?
- Twenty One Years of UK Grocery Market Share
- London's Welsh Dairies: The Welsh Milk Trade
- Retail Branding: it's not (just) private label
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Category Archives: Incredible Edible
Towns: Time for some good news
This blog has railed, far too often, at the dire coverage of high streets and towns. Partial data, an agenda of failure, a lack of intelligence and thinking about what is being studied and a seemingly overwhelming desire to stigmatise … Continue reading
Posted in "We" towns, Carnegie UK Trust, Community, Craft Town, Dumfries, Incredible Edible, Independents, Innovation, Local Retailers, Localisation, Places, Regeneration, Reinvention, Relationships, Totnes, Town Centres, Towns, Uncategorized
Tagged Carnegie, Craft Town, Incredible Edible, Localisation, Midsteeple Quarter, towns, Transition Towns, Turnaround
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High Streets for Consumers or High Streets for Citizens?
A little while ago I came across a new article by Julian Dobson entitled “from me towns to we towns”. I invited Julian to summarise this for this blog, but he thought some up to date context would work better … Continue reading
Posted in "We" towns, Bristol Pound, Citizens, Community, Consumers, Creative Places, Incredible Edible, Local Retailers, Places, Planning, Public Realm, Retail Change, Social Justice, Spaces, Stokes Croft, Totnes, Uncategorized
Tagged ""Me towns", "We" towns, Citizens, Consumers, High Streets, Incredible Edible, McDonalds, People, Places, Stokes Croft, Totnes, Town Centres
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The Lost Broch of Stirling
I am not sure what it says about me, but I have been seduced into some small crowdfunding projects over the last few years. The subjects have been food, drink, rugby and history, so maybe I do know how and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Brochs, Buildings, Crowdfunding, Experiential, Heritage, History, Incredible Edible, Retail Change, Sexism, Social media, Stirling, University of Stirling, Urban, Urban History
Tagged Brochs, Buildings, Crowdfunding, Incredible Edible, Scotland, Sexism, Stirling, University of Stirling, Urban History
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Sustainable Development by Retailers in Europe
In 1987 I went to Poland at the invitation of the British Academy/Polish Academy of Sciences. It was an interesting trip and we even published some quick reflections on the retailing we encountered in Warsaw and Krakow (see here). Fast … Continue reading
It’s Incredible
We hear an awful lot these days about the importance of, and need for, community. This is often in the setting of place-making or rebuilding locations hit by structural and recessionary change. But the numbers of examples of communities doing … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Community, Crowdfunding, Food, Incredible Edible, Local Retailers, Places, Red Tape, Resilience, Seeds, Slow Food
Tagged Community, Food, Growing, Incredible Edible, Local, Place, Todmorden
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