
Main and high streets, Storefronts, Repurposing vacant retail buildings, Cultural placemaking, Urban revitalization
Beyond Retail: What is the Future of Main Street?
About this issue
Issue number
Volume 48 – Number 1
Summary
As increasing numbers of retail establishments close, and more and more boarded up storefronts appear on our main streets, the question is ‘how do we maintain the social, economic, and cultural function of these streets? The contributors to this issue explore this all to evident problem and potential solutions from multi-disciplinary perspectives: not just of planning and architecture, but geography, sociology, business, and psychology.
Guest Editors: CONRAD KICKERT and EMILY TALEN
Contents
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Beyond Retail: Envisioning the Future of Retail
CONRAD KICKERT and EMILY TALEN -
The Past of Our Storefront Future: A Century of Post-Transactional Storefront Transformations in The Hague’s Urban Core
CONRAD KICKERT -
The Future of Main Street: Retail Shrinkage
EMILY TALEN -
Gathering Spaces When No One Can Gather: Art and Community Third Places in the Age of Covid-19
JEFFREY NATHANIEL PARKER -
Music on Main: Supporting a Tangle of Main Streets during the Covid-19 Pandemic
JACOB IZENBERG, DOUGLAS FARRAND, MOLLY ROSE KAUFMAN, and MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE -
Rebuilding Cultural Ethos in Urban Storefronts: Two Arts Districts in Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas
HYESUN JEONG -
The Consumerization of Work in the Modern City: Storefronts, Coworking, and the Convergence of Production and Consumption
PETER BACEVICE -
Turning Shops into Housing? Planning Deregulation, Design Quality, and the Future of the High Street in England
BEN CLIFFORD and MANUELA MADEDDU - Publication review
Cover images: (front) In The Hague a creative firm occupies an erstwhile shop (photo: Conrad Kickert; (back) Anheuser-Busch workspace, New York, boarded up during the pandemic (photo: Peter Bacevice)