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Quality Streetscapes - April 2012
1. Activity and adaptability: have reports of the
high street’s death been exaggerated?
Responding to changing
movement, living, working and leisure patterns
Professor Laura Vaughan, Ashley Dhanani & Ruthie Carlisle
Surbiton, Claremont Road c1914. Courtesy http://postcardsthenandnow.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/surbiton-surrey-
claremont-road-c1914.html
5. Cities are very complex systems, but they grow from a simple idea: they are
large dense aggregates of buildings linked by space. The space takes the form
of a linear network, which we call a town plan or street network.
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16. Not just retail: the high street as a generator of
socio-economic diversity – By-product activity
Business meeting
Catching a train/bus/tube
Of 199 survey respondents: Coffee/tea/drink
Do nothing/ hanging out
• 46% were shopping Doctors/hospital/dentist
Eat
• 86% of shoppers were Univariate Bar Chart
Split By: activity
Get money
Row exclusion: shoppers.svd Go for a w alk
combining with another activity 25
Gym/leisure centre/sports
Library
• Most common combinations: 11
Live here
10
– Coffee/tea/drink 8
Meet family/friends
On school lunch break
total count
– Going for a walk 6 Park/allotments/recreation ground
• Every-day activities
5 Passing through
4 Pay bills
• Interdependence, 3
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Post a letter
Post office
by-product activities 1 Pub/bar
School/college/university
Observations
Take children to/from nursery/playschool
Take children to/from school
Visit family/friends
Wait for family/friends
Walk the dog
Window shop
Work here
17. Surbiton High Street Activity from 1869 to 2012
(inset: South Norwood stats for same period)
"Third Space" (cafes, takeaways, pubs etc.*
“Third Place”
120%
Offices & Commerce (e.g.
Offices and Commerce
solicitors, hairdressers, photographers
Industry (workshops, storage, builders’ merch. etc.
Industry
100%
Community Services
Community (Education, Health, Religious, Leisure)
Retail (shops, shop+production, banks etc
Retail
80%
120%
60%
100%
80%
40%
60%
40%
20% 20%
0%
1869 1915 1956 2012
0%
1876 1915 1956 2012
n= 190 n= 165 n= 196 n= 240 * Oldenberg (1999) The Great Good Place. The
importance of informal public gathering places.
24. Adaptable Suburbs Project
Victor Buchli
Ruthie Carlisle
Ashley Dhanani
Claire Ellul
Sam Griffiths
Muki Haklay
David Jeevendrampillai
Patrick Rickles
Laura Vaughan
www.ucl.ac.uk/adaptablesuburbs
@AdaptableSuburb
@urban_formation
Notas do Editor
Have the reports of the high street’s “death” been greatly exaggerated?We will dissect the hysteria around the so-called decline of the high street (stating that this has been a problem that recurs throughout the last 100 years). We suggest that success is bound up in spatial adaptability. We can also show some of the key findings of how this adaptability can be observed both in how the network connectivity changes over time and how land uses shift in their pattern over time. The talk will be illustrated with the project’s recent work on historic business directories, in which we populate space syntax maps and historic Ordnance Survey maps with land uses over four epochs.