The Battle for the High Street Retail Gentrification, Class and Disg
This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity. High streets are shown to have long been regarded as the heart of many communities, but have declined to a state where boarded-up and vacant retail un
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PHIL HUBBARD
The Battle for the High Street
Phil Hubbard
The Battle for the High Street Retail Gentrification, Class and Disgust
Phil Hubbard King’s College London Department of Geography London, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-52152-1 ISBN 978-1-137-52153-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-52153-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016947442 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover image © Mark Wiener / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom
Acknowledgements
This book is one that has been intimately shaped by my personal circumstances, and in particular, returning to the county of my birth some quarter of a century after leaving. In that time, much had changed in the local towns and villages, including in some cases a rapid gentrification that had changed these places beyond recognition. Reflecting on some of these changes, and discussing these with my work colleagues, spurred me to write this book, which in many ways is my attempt to show how the sociological preoccupation with class (and the language of class) remains relevant to urban theory, notwithstanding the popularity of alternative ways of reading the urban landscape. In this sense, I am particularly thankful to those colleagues at the University of Kent who indulged me over the last five years as I have suggested ways in which the reconfiguration of Whitstable and Margate (and some of the other places that feature prominently in this book) illustrate wider transitions in the nature of post-industrial culture. Here, I should particularly mention Anne Bottomle
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