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Walking the girdle (part 1)

1. Nine-mile walk around inner Manchester and Salford (shown in green) 2. 1844 map of Manchester and Salford included in Engels’s ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’ In 1844, Engels...

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The Ancoats Dispensary: the politics of ruins

The Ancoats Dispensary building before scaffolding was put up by Urban Splash in 2010 A small group of local activists had been keeping a vigil for over 3 years outside one of Ancoats’s most iconic...

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Abandoned futures: the Park Hill estate, Sheffield

In 21st-century Britain, the social housing estate – and particular those described, usually pejoratively, as ‘Brutalist’ – serves as an archetypal contemporary ruin. Even as many of these concrete...

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Mills: a Manchester metonym

‘Manchester, getting up the steam’, The Builder, October 1853. In October 1853, the British architectural journal The Builder pictured Manchester ‘getting up the steam’, an image of the city’s forest...

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