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Author: Leigh Sparks
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Tag Archives: Place
Food and Retailing Cultures: Zaragoza
On a few occasions before, I have come back from somewhere and commented on the quality of food and/or retail culture that I have observed. I have then contrasted it with our own paucity of offer. I know this can … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Consumer Lifestyle, Food, Food Retailing, Heritage, Lisbon, Local Retailers, Markets, Places, Retail History, Retail Planning, Shopfronts, Signage, Spaces, Streetscapes, Town Centres, Uncategorized, Urban History
Tagged Food, Food Culture, Heritage, Historical shops, Markets, Place, Retail History, Signs, Zaragoza
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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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Riots
It has been a little hard to know whether or not to add to the volume of material that has been written and broadcast etc about the English urban riots of the last week. What can be added to the … Continue reading
Posted in High Streets, Independents, Places, Retailers, Riots, Town Centres, Uncategorized
Tagged High Streets, Place, Riots, Shops, Town Centres
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What am I, BID
The right place to start is by declaring an interest; I am a Board member of the company that encourages Business Improvement Districts (BIDS)Â in Scotland and as such am highly supportive of BIDS as an activity. So my comments … Continue reading
Scotland’s Shops and Shopfronts: history and future?
One of the benefits of the Easter long weekend/fortnight, not that the retail group in the University ever rests, is a small amount of time to catch up on things. I first became aware of Lindsay Lennie some years ago … Continue reading
