#BetterTowns Roadmap
Didobi in association with HLM Architects and realestateworks has launched a new online interactive roadmap to support local authorities in creating successful places.
Repurposing UK Department Stores
In January 2020 Quadrant and Eccleston Capital launched a new investment vehicle to repurpose redundant department stores. Matthew Hopkinson of Didobi was commissioned to write a t
Global Capital Flows in a World of Increasing Nationalism and Protectionism
This Investment Property Forum research paper written by Didobi and Control Risks focuses on the threats and opportunities posed by growing nationalism and protectionism to global
Towards a Better Understanding of Footfall
A research update from three UCL PhD students who are using Local Data Company’s SmartStreetSensor devices to analyse retail footfall and its relationship to places and
Creating Better Leaders Aide-Memoire
#CreatingBetterLeaders is designed to be an aide-memoire and support for everyone who is knowingly or unknowingly, willingly or unwillingly, in a situation where leadership is requ
Creating Better Towns Workbook
A workbook for use in conjunction with the Didobi Better Towns Aide-Memoire to help users deliver a vision, strategy, and well thought out plan for their town. The workbook fo
Creating Better Towns Aide-Memoire
An aide-memoire for Councils and stakeholders in towns which identifies and clearly defines best practice, methodologies, and the key ingredient for Creating Better Towns: a Didobi
A review of data across GB town centres 2013-18
A review of economic, retail, and property market data across Great Britain relevant to the function and performance of town centres. Download here.
The Grimsey Review 2 (2018)
The Grimsey Review 2 ‘It’s time to reshape our town centres’ was published in July 2018. It is a ‘five years on’ follow up to the 2013 Grimsey Review
The Grimsey Review (2013)
The Grimsey Review ‘An Alternative Future For The High Street’ was published in September 2013. It is a comprehensive evidence-based review on the state of the UK’