ATCM Summer School 2022: High Streets vs The Industrial Revolution

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High streets face double trouble.  Two global forces have come together to transform the way our local economies work, making our high streets unrecognisable to what they were at the turn of the Century.  The Pandemic The first, a global pandemic which rewired the way we work, trade, play, travel and live. This has forced us to reconsider concepts such as agglomeration and density and could alter our economic geography for years to come.  The Industrial Revolution The second might be even more profound. An industrial revolution, with digital at its heart, sits behind the pandemic fuelling the changes in the way the people and businesses engage. It has been slowly transforming our economy and society for years, with the COVID-19 lighting the blue touch paper.  We are witness to significant changes in high street business models, the flourishing of the urban logistics industry and a rewriting…