Places / History of
the Present: Cities in Transition 2020-07, por Richard J. Williams,
Professor de Culturas Visuais Contemporâneas na Universidade de Edimburgo.
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Beetham
Tower, viewed from
Castlefield Urban Heritage Park,
November 2019. [Richard
Williams]
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(..) Manchester, whose
collapse in the mid 20th century rivaled that of Detroit, is busily, loudly
rebounding; the city is now constructing a cluster of skyscrapers on the edge
of its downtown core, the scale of which dwarfs all existing buildings. Not
all that long ago, a big building here could perhaps boast 100,000 square feet;
today “big” means half a million. The new South Tower of Deansgate Square, a
collection of mostly residential towers, rises priapically to more than 600
feet, and it might soon be overtaken by the 700-foot-tall Trinity Islands.
There were at the end of last year an unprecedented 80 construction sites in
the city center, including 14,000 future apartments, many of which are
underwritten by international investment. (..)
2020-07-05
