Future High?

Shopping on the internetRecession - killing big chains?

Heart of the community?

Margate and Portas

• 37.4% of shops in Margate (1 in 7) now boarded up – worst case in the UK

• UK has the largest e-retail economy in Europe• Woolworths, Zavvi and Habitat all casualties• Mobile phone shops (high mark up) + charity

shops most successful• Portas review (Mary Queens of Shops) made

28 recommendations including free parking and National Market Day

URBAN PLAYGROUNDSThe artist – MARTIN BOYCE

URBAN PLAYGROUNDS

URBAN PLAYGROUNDS

• Elevated landscaped walkway that was the high line railway in Manhattan now an inspirational green tongue

• Landscape architect should be king• Make them gardens and playgrounds• Embrace the BMX and skateboard• Remove architecture designed to repel

the undesirable and embrace a green wilderness

LOWER RENT TO ATTRACT TALENTThe retailer JANE SHEPHERDSON

LOWER RENT TO ATTRACT TALENT

LOWER RENT TO ATTRACT TALENT

• Landlords and retailers brought together to plan Covent Garden as a core of perfume and jewelry stores and outer ring of prime real estate

• Planning important vision to the future is limited (where will they be on 5 years?)

• Village type atmosphere with good service, kids welcome and a pleasant experience

• Increasingly talented young British designers going online; we need to attract them in

PUBLIC BUILDINGS AT THE COREThe architect DAVID ADJAYE

PUBLIC BUILDINGS AT THE CORE

PUBLIC BULDINGS AT THE CORE

• Draconian regulations and close-minded agenda for years

• Transitory spaces which need decay and revitalization of shops, not preserved Victoriana

• Apple stores work – spaces to play, good design, browse for free – Dixons doesn’t

• Starbucks emulates your living room, a place to hang out

• Reintegrate the public library and council block but with no doors and hushed interior, the Idea Store in Whitechapel has done it.

LUST FOR THE BESPOKE THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS

Fashion magazine Editor – LORAINE CANDY (Elle)

LUST FOR THE BESPOKE THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS

LUST FOR THE BESPOKE THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS

• H+M collaborated with Versace last November generating queues at 5 in the morning

• A specific range or experience you can only get in their shops

• Feel as though you are in an art gallery – look is everything

• Stock rotated every four to six weeks and responding quickly to new trends (Mad Men)

MAKE TALKING THE NEW HAIRCUTThe philosopher ALAIN DE BOTTON

MAKE TALKING THE NEW HAIRCUT

MAKE TALKING THE NEW HAIRCUT

• The person who doesn't sell you anything, didn’t offer a service mending or storing but dealt with your soul.

• Priests now being replaced with therapists, but hidden away upstairs – make them central to our community

• Restaurants survive as a social catalyst so why not encourage places to talk, so they become as common as the nail bar.

Observer Magazine 29th April 2012

• Playground• Talent• Public• Bespoke• Therapy

In reality, a variety, but with a passion Print slides 2,5,8,11,14,17 to make handout

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/apr/28/high-streets