Month: March 2022

Bounce back or recalibrate? Future prospects for high streets and town centres in a post COVID-19  world

In the writing of this blog, I was drawn to the painstaking review by Neil Wrigley and colleagues at University of Southampton, of research projects that have sought to measure the performance of towns and city centre retailing in order to better understand the forces, drivers and behaviours that shape its future. In their report …

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An Academic Goes Back to his Roots – all in a day’s work: the reminiscence of an estate surveyor

Dr Paul Greenhalgh. Professor of Real Estate and Regeneration in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at Northumbria University reminisces on his early career working as an estate surveyor for British Rail My patch was South Yorkshire and what a lovely patch it was! You can perhaps understand why I have since carved out …

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