Purpose-built shopping centres may be a thing of the past as cities around the world focus on feel-good, mixed-use precincts powered by public and private investment.
The move has seen some of the biggest brands in the UK resorting to a private army of uniformed officers to protect staff from increasingly brazen and violent shoplifters.
Top city officials aren’t wrong to be concerned about the growing trend of city neighborhoods taking policing and other tasks that should be city services into their own hands by
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