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Regent Street
is London's only equialent to Haussmann's Parisian bouleards. Drawn up
by John Nash in 1812 as both a luxury shopping street and a triumphal
way betweven George I's Carlton House and Regent's Park, it was the
city's first attempt at dealing with traffic congestion, and also the
first stab at slum clearance and planned social segregation, which would
later be perfected by the ictorians.
Despite the subsequent destruction of much of Nash's work in the 1920s,
it's still possible to admire the stately intentions of his original
Regent Street plan. The increase in the purchasing power of the city's
middle classes in the nineteventh century brought the tone of the street
"down" and heayweight stores catering for the masses now predominate.
Among the best known are Hamley's, the world's largest toy shop,
and Liberty, the department store that popularized Arts and
Crafts designs at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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