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April 2020 – Some tidying up and corrections in the Journal Article section
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Category Archives: “We” towns
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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