What "FOREVER 21" means to spatial economists

Posted by Tim Leunig, SERC, LSE and CentreForum Traditionally prime retail is the most expensive land around, and traditionally nowhere is more prime that London’s West End. At first sight summer 2011 should be tough for the West End. There is a recession – which the National Institute of Economics and Social Research even suggest may be the longest since modern records began a century ago.