Phoenix's Native-American art shops and taco restaurants offer pockets of variety, but generic food chains such as International House of Pancakes and Pizza Hut still dominate.
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Start your stroll at the north bank promenade in Kleinbasel (Lesser Basel), a picturesque residential area thriving with local coffee and art shops tucked in between old brick houses decorated with red and purple pansies and colourful wooden shutters.
Handsome pastel-coloured houses, independent shops and art galleries, and ramshackle fishing huts line the High Street, while a sweeping shingle beach offers big-sky views.
We brought in historic lighting and shade trees, and began converting the vacant buildings into pop-up business such as local cafes, markets, flower shops and art studios for kids.
SoHo, a Lower Manhattan neighborhood now known for its boutique shops, art galleries and loft apartments, at the time was considered a grittier locale, where abandoned storefronts dotted the city streets.
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SoHo -- a Lower Manhattan neighborhood now known for its boutique shops, art galleries and loft apartments -- at the time was a grittier locale where abandoned storefronts dotted the streets.
Shopping is also a key attraction in Hudson, and Warren Street is lined with high end but cheaper-than-the-city antique shops, boutiques and art galleries.
With the recession in the U.S. in the 1990s, payment terms from big U.S. chains turned harsh, however, and Lo started to withdraw from large-scale retailing in favor of art fairs, smaller exhibitions and shops.
Opening in 1779 as a marketplace for Halifax's cloth trade, the council-owned Piece Hall now plays host to shops, cafes and an art gallery.
It is chockablock with art galleries, boutique hotels, design shops, hipster bars and cafes - there is even a Soho House, which opened last year.
"It's about adult play, making a space different to other shops and offering things like art and music as part of the shopping experience, " says Staton.
Minoru kept the company name and focused on building grand office towers surrounded by shops, condos, parks and art galleries such as Roppongi Hills, meant to create the feel of a hilly community in flat Tokyo.
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But perhaps the world's most successful at this is New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has a chain of 40 shops, from Texas to Tokyo, selling replicas of its exhibits though the Met declines to say how much profit these stores make.
It is still possible to pick up an Art Deco gem in the city's antique shops, though not as easy as in the past.
In the past, I'd encountered springerle molds in antique stores and fancy cookware shops, but they always seemed more like art pieces than part of a practical kitchen arsenal.
Amid the dozens of private art galleries on Insadong street you will find tiny craft shops bursting with creativity (check out the four-storey Ssamzie complex) - look for pale green celadon vases, pen-and-ink drawings and calligraphy, and world-class stitching at Kukjae Embroidery.
It is nicely carpeted, has exquisite art displays, and features an impressive range of luxury goods in duty-free shops.
The enlightening properties of caffeine and the draw of the social hubbub of coffee shops has been behind many of histories revolutions and movements in politics, music, art, writing and business.
New Art Gallery director Stephen Snoddy says the venue had 175, 000 visitors in 2011 and that new flats, shops and a hotel had now been built nearby.
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