Amazon v the high street – how Doncaster is fighting back

The old pit town lost 5% of its high-street shops last year – but both the council and creative locals are trying to think againMost towns and cities have the strange, uncertain spaces some people call “edgelands”, but Doncaster’s seem to go on for ever. Thanks to the Yorkshire town’s proximity to four motorways, the expanses around it are full of retail parks and distribution centres, those leviathans that sit at the heart of 21st-century consumerism.Three of them