The Battle for the High Street : Retail Gentrification, Class and Disgust

• Main Author: Hubbard, Phil. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: maloobchod > Velká Británie; společenské třídy > Velká Británie; dělníci; sociologie města; sociální geografie; retail trade > Great Britain; social classes > Great Britain; working class > Great Britain; urban sociology; human geography; elektronické knihy; monografie; electronic books; monographs
• ISBN: 9781137521538
• Physical Description: X, 260 p. 1 illus. in color. online resource.

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 citi...