# The perfect high street

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2015-05-16

architect-this-city, atc, athiscity, cities, city-planning, conference, design, high-street, lisbon, main-street, monocle, monocle-magazine, planning, quality-of-life, quality-of-life-conference, real-estate, uncategorized, urban-planning, urbanism

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How do you create and maintain a thriving high street in this era of increasing online shopping? This was one of the questions that Monocle asked at its recent [Quality of Life Conference in Lisbon](http://brandondonnelly.com/post/109104765548/the-monocle-quality-of-life-conference) and here’s a video with its recommendations. [Click here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox2WJwDbuIo) if you can’t see the video below.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/the-perfect-high-street)*