Taking the pulse of the High Street

Geography fieldwork needs to keep pace with the changes that are taking place in the real world, as well as in education.
I am going to be involved in a nice project later in the year involving fieldwork.
What about updating urban fieldwork ?
One way to do this perhaps is to put the work in the context of taking a health check of the local  High St.
How resilient is it ?
What signs are there that it is declining ?
A recent British Retail Consortium report suggested that the High Street is not in a good state. Footfall is down.

Footfall can be calculated using a simple hand held clicker at locations for a period of time.
There's a CLICK COUNTER app for the iPhone which records the clicks and produces some visual indication of the rate of clicks as well..

A Google Doc could be created, and cards made with the QR Code linking through and these could be placed in the location, made into a poster which explains what it is all about...

More fieldwork links to come shortly....

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