Manchester

Zusatztext

What is Manchester? Moving far from the glitzy shopping districts and architectural showpieces, away from cool city-centre living and modish cultural centres, this book shows us the unheralded, under-appreciated and overlooked parts of Greater Manchester in which the majority of Mancunians live, work and play. It tells the story of the city thematically, using concepts such a material, atmosphere, waste, movement and underworld to challenge our understanding of the quintessential post-industrial metropolis. Bringing together contributions from twenty-five poets, academics, writers, novelists, historians, architects and artists from across the region alongside a range of captivating photographs, this book explores the history of Manchester through its chimneys, cobblestones, ginnels and graves. This wide-ranging and inclusive approach reveals a host of idiosyncrasies, hidden spaces and stories that have until now been neglected.

Autorenportrait

Paul Dobraszczyk is a researcher and writer based in Manchester and a Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. He is the author of<i>Future Cities: Architecture and the Imagination</i>(2019) and<i>The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay</i>(2017). Sarah Butler is a novelist and Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School, Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of<i>Jack&amp; Bet</i> (2020) and<i>Ten Things I've Learnt About Love: A Novel</i>(2014) and explores the relationship between writing and place through her consultancy UrbanWords.

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