Böcker av David Rudlin

The high street is in crisis. How did we get here and what happens next? The global pandemic has made the crisis immeasurably worse but it wasn't the cause. The crisis was already raging in 2019 with thousands of store closures. Large retailers became complacent and failed to respond to changing consumer behaviour.

ClimaxCity untangles the complexity of urban growth and masterplanning and embraces the chaos of the city

Explores the way that the UK's towns and cities have changed at the turn of the millennium. This work describes the way that environmental and demographic change, economic pressures and the needs of community could change urban areas forever just as the garden city movement did a century ago.