![]() ![]() ![]() For example, public transport is more viable when more people live close together, which makes car-free living easier. There would also be some extremely good second-order consequences from such a movement too. But if you imagine a shop that has lost half its footfall, if you have double the population in the shop’s ‘catchment area’, suddenly you have a viable business again.Īnd so if we were to have more densely populated town and city centres, the residents would help seed viable high streets, providing customers for shops, restaurants, pubs and other social infrastructure. This seems almost too obvious to point out. If we want high streets to remain viable, we need to increase the number of people who live in the centre of our towns and cities. This means there is only one other available solution. Graph made by Benedict Evans, whose entire post you should read here. Though the trend has reverted a little bit, I’d bet that line isn’t going to go back down much further. UK ecommerce sales as a percentage of retail sales. ![]()
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