I think that this debate about how local shopping streets will change overtime has much to do with similar ideas expressed in conversations dealing with ethnic families moving out of living spaces in neighborhoods and the face of neighborhoods changing overtime. Local shopping streets in the past were comprised of lines of small businesses that provided local residents with every type of product that they needed or would need in the near future, and more. These shops were run by locals who knew the neighborhood and whose social interaction added to the charm and social fabric of these neighborhoods. These types of local shopping streets have since diminished and been replaced by big chain stores that have taken the the personal feeling out of shopping that small businesses work to preserve. They are also being replaced by the evolution of technology because it is becoming easier for people to eliminate the need to actually physically go to a store and buy items they need faster and more efficiently. The price of this efficiency, of course like in every human aspect that efficiency affects, is the loss of a human element. I think that the changing face of local shopping streets is completely inevitable because of how much technology is becoming interwoven with almost every aspect of our lives. I think that this issue relates back to the conversation the class had in the past where we discussed the meaning of diversity, and one point that was brought up was that even though the old fabric of the neighborhood becomes replaced, the “new” residents and new businesses become the diverse group of the future of the neighborhood, so to speak. The individual aspects that are seen as new and changing in the neighborhood will become the “old” aspects of the neighborhood in the future.