Shopping

Independent shops, record stores, bookshops and the places to find things a chain would never stock.

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London's covered shopping arcades — Between 1818 and 1933 London built a run of glass-roofed shopping streets whose point was to keep mud off a hem, and five of them still run…
Berlin's independent record shops — Berlin's vinyl trade has spent the last decade losing leases: Hard Wax left the Kreuzberg building it shared with Dubplates & Mastering whe…
London's independent record shops — Vinyl retail in London runs on specialisation and on buildings that were something else first: a brewery, a bus depot basement, a butcher's…
Paris passages under their original glass roofs — Paris built its glazed shopping streets between the 1790s and the 1860s, and the surviving twenty-odd differ enormously in how much of the…
Lisbon shops the city lists as historic — Lisbon's city council began registering long-running retailers in 2015, tying protection and restoration grants to the survival of original…