Oxford Street as having "very few buildings", though it was heavily built up by the late 18th century. It is also mentioned in "Sketches by Boz" and "Bleak House". The street is a square on the British "Monopoly" game board, part of the green set (together with Regent Street and Bond Street). The streets were grouped together as they are all primarily retail areas. In 1991, music manager and entrepreneur Malcolm McLaren produced "The Ghosts of Oxford Street", a musical documentary about life and history in the local area. Citations Sources Oxford Street Oxford Street is a major road in the City
Regent Street down a "de facto" line separating the upper classes and nobility in Mayfair with the working class in Soho. The northern section involved demolishing most of the existing Swallow Street, which had become run down and was an ideal candidate for regeneration. The road was designed to curve east between Oxford Street and Piccadilly so that it did not meet St James's Square, and the circuses allowed visual continuity down the street. The central section, known as the Quadrant, was designed for "shops appropriated to articles of fashion and taste," and was Nash's centrepiece for the street. It was built