Tag: community
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The high street of the future is like nothing we know
Susie Mesure writes about Bill Grimsey’s blueprint for how to reinvent the nations town centres. “But if the present looks bleak for west London’s latest retail casualties, which join 40,000 more empty shops across the UK, then the future could be rather more exciting.” “the high street as we know it “is dead”. He envisages…
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The antidote to apathy
Some interesting thoughts from Dave Meslin about engagement apathy “Local politics — schools, zoning, council elections — hit us where we live. So why don’t more of us actually get involved? Is it apathy? Dave Meslin says no. He identifies 7 barriers that keep us from taking part in our communities, even when we truly…