What’s the future of downtown?

O ur high streets and city centres are in trouble. How should we remake them? What kinds of interventions make a real impact, what are the challenges and what does it mean to take a place-based approach?

Tim Tompkins, President of the Times Square Alliance in Manhattan, Rachel Fisher, Deputy Director of Regeneration and Infrastructure at the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Patricia Brown, Director of Central share their learnings and thoughts on the future potential as they discuss the remaking of downtown.

This podcast was recorded live on stage at the Festival of Place at Tobacco Dock in East London.