Do shopping centres such as drake circus plymouth, destroy a city centre?

since %26lt;a href="http://www.plymouth-england.com/dr... circus"%26gt; drake circus%26lt;/a%26gt;opened many shops in the city centre have closed with whole sections of streets such as Mayflower street and the upper part of new george street now virtually empty.

Do shopping centres destroy a city centre

Do shopping centres such as drake circus plymouth, destroy a city centre?
in the case of drake circus yes, and not just because other areas become abandoned. That is the ugliest building on the planet, a monstrosity that managed to do the impossible and make one of the ugliest city centres in the country even worse.



The problem is that theres not really any need for more shops so people just move out of one area and into another until that area gets redeveloped. However on the whole it improves the facilities available, plymouth desperately needed something new (just a shame they made such a mess of it).



Right idea just badly put together
Reply:I didn't go to any of the shops on Mayflower Street or the West End of the City Centre before Drake Circus was built. I find that shops in these areas are very expensive and that is why they struggle and end up closing down. Drake Circus has bought a lot of revenue to the city and created many jobs.
Reply:No,the problems were there to start with.In my town,a suburban mall opened up and it closed downtown.That is because it improved the shopping in every way.

There is free parking,everything is located under the same roof or close together.There is room to expand and it has grown to about 200 stores in the general area.

Let me emphasize free parking,the city that I live in is in a cannibalization mode.

There are meter maids going around giving tickets as if the life of the city depended on it.It is too late,the life of the city is already pretty well gone.
Reply:yes completely and those out of town ones even more so.

I had to do a delivery in Alresford(hampshire) and it's quite small so no shopping centre.The town/village centre was buzzing with different shops and shoppers.It looked great,just as a high street should be