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 some Nash-designed sewers. The current design is an example of the Beaux Arts approach to urban design: an assembly of separate buildings on a grand scale, designed to harmonise and produce an impressive overall effect. Strict rules governed the reconstruction. Each block had to be designed with a continuous unifying street façade and finished in Portland stone. The first redevelopment was Regent House, just south of Oxford Circus. The stylistic tone for the rebuilding was set by Sir Reginald Blomfield's Quadrant. The architect Norman Shaw, then aged 73, was brought in to draw up proposals for the Circus and the