Yet imperatives of both city planners and curators have been inclining towards urban convenience, and towards similar neighbours in easily accessible locations, which might well be convenient industrial brownfields or refurbished buildings, high streets, historic lakefronts, or active downtowns.
But the mix will shift towards convenience stores.
Many analysts say the trend towards convenience and online shopping may squeeze supermarket profit margins by as much as 50%.
The Co-operative Group has told its members that it cannot make an enhanced commitment to stock Fairtrade products because of tough competition among supermarkets and its shift towards convenience stores.
Lewis suggested the much-touted trend towards convenience shopping could just as well mean shoppers head for one big store that provides every need, rather than nipping to several places that are handy and local.
It also severely tested the distribution system that was skewed towards convenience stores.
"The advent of smartphones led a shift towards convenience and speed.
We're always leaping towards convenience: "Oh, wouldn't it be better if a machine could do that?" I'm wondering where that road ends.
In the food industry's shift towards convenience over recent decades, cooking has become almost voyeuristic – people read recipes and watch cooking TV more than ever, but cook less frequently, and when they do, they make a narrower range of meals.
As long as the fitness industry continues to create more multimedia content in the race towards convenience and personalization, and as long as the music industry continues to become more comfortable with experimentation beyond static streaming platforms in service of keeping up its newfound growth, we can only expect the intersection of these two spaces to blossom even more in the coming months.
