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An absolutely stunning photo of Manchester city centre in spectacular light. Courtesy of jrb on SSC
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@Brum X How does Brum compare with Manchester in your opinion ?
I have been reading Richard Vinen's Second City the Making of Birmingham and it provides some very useful insights into the greatness (and woes) of each city. The author rather ignores London, but looks at the different path Birmingham took to the great Northern Cities. Brum, at least initially, less driven by profit and big business and more by social welfare and philanphropy (Joseph Chamberlain, says it all). Its prosperity grew through the growth of a highly skilled workforce in small family run businesses, as opposed to a lower skilled big factory approach in Manchester. Mr Vinen boldly concludes that if Engels had lived in and studied Birmingham and not Manchester, he would have reached a different view point. How the world may have been different.It pains me to say this but Manchester is kicking Brum's Ass, our council and developers need to work closer together as whilst Brum as done wonders to correct some of the mistakes made in the 1960s/70s the central core is still not being expanded beyond the traditional city centre. Birmingham still has large swathes of undeveloped brownfield sites still not touched so the city centre feels and looks tiny by comparison. I travelled on the tram from Piccadilly gardens to Media City UK and you have continuous development going on between Manchester and Salford, cranes everywhere. You come back to Brum and it feels like the City centre stops at certain points and nothing major is currently being done to address this. Don't get me wrong there are some top class developments going up in Birmingham City Centre but once you leave the central core the city becomes rundown with very little going on, by now the city centre should be expanding outwards in all directions.
My hope for Brum is that developers are waiting for Hs2 to start proper, however it has started proper so whats with the slow pace of construction, who knows. I am sure we will get there but for somebody who loves my city it feels like we are dragging our heels as per usual.
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