Town centre development of indoor shopping malls in major towns and cities. Examples include the Manchester Arndale Centre, the St. James Centre in Edinburgh and the Bullring Centre in Birmingham. They tended to be constructed in a Brutalist or Modernist fashion reflecting the architectural styles of the period. During the Thatcher government of the 1980s, a change in planning policy allowed competing out-of-town shopping and leisure centres to be developed. Examples include the Metro Centre in Gateshead, the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Dudley, and the Gyle Centre in Edinburgh. Developments of this type have, in a number of places, resulted in
Westfield Miranda Westfield Miranda Westfield Miranda (also known as Miranda Fair) is a large shopping centre in the suburb of Miranda in Southern Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located near Miranda railway station. It is managed by the Scentre Group which owns 50 percent of the centre with the other 50 percent by Dexus. Miranda Fair was originally opened in 1964 as a Myer shopping centre. Designed byTomkins, Shaw & Evans Architects, it was built on the former site of Fowler's brick pit. It was the first regional shopping centre in Sydney to have two department