Liverpool One
Remaking a City Centre
Liverpool is one of the most famous trading cities in the world. The view of its Pier Head with the Liver Building has become iconic: it has been called the second city of the British Empire and in the 1930s it became the model for Shanghai's Bund. The city suffered a slow decline in the latter half of the 20th century; industries closed or moved away, postwar architecture was mostly mediocre and the city's population fell as citizens sought employment further afield. Local people even began to shop elsewhere. As Manchester's star ascended in the late 1990s, the heart of Liverpool was in danger of becoming economically inconsequential.In 1999…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-470-71409-6
- EAN: 9780470714096
- Produktnummer: 19598550
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H25.4 cm x B22.6 cm x D2.4 cm 1'258 g
- Gewicht: 1258
Über den Autor
David Littlefield is an architectural writer. He has a master's degree in interior and spatial design and has taught architecture and design at the University of the Arts London, the University of Bath and the University of the West of England. David curated the exhibition Unseen Hands: 100 years of structural engineering at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2008. He co-wrote the book Architectural Voices: Listening to Old Buildings and authored HOME: Investing in Design, both published by John Wiley & Sons. David is a regular contributor to Architectural Design.
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