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  If local politicians really wanted to improve the town centre they could do worse than reading this report.
  
  The approach of nearly all of these commentators assumes that High Streets are
  the raison d’être for city centres. Yet our research shows that sluggish retail is the
  symptom of an underperforming city centre, not the cause of it. If a city centre lacks
  jobs, residents and/or leisure amenities - the primary functions of city centres -
  then this will shrink the size of the market that a secondary activity such as retail
  can serve. This may well sound obvious. But the economics behind the struggles of
  some High Streets has been largely overlooked by those that are looking to arrest
  their decline.
  
  

  

  
  
  http://www.centreforcities.org/publication/beyond-the-high-street/

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