Table of Contents

Foreword by George Ferguson, President of the RIBA Preface by Councillor Richard Leese and Sir Howard Bernstein, Chief Executive of Manchester City Council. Chapter 1: The First Modern City Chapter 2: Driving Change Chapter 3: Transforming the City Castlefield Eastgate Merchants Bridge Timber Wharf Hulme Homes for Change Hulme Arch Bridge Rolls Crescent Hulme Park Great Northern Imitative Bridgewater Hall Offices at Barbarolli Square Deansgate Locks Manchester International Convention Centre Radisson Edwardian Manchester Hotel Beetham Tower Northern Quarter Dry 201 The Buddhist Centre Smithfield Buildings City Centre Renewal and Millennium Quarter Masterplan Marks & Spencer Corporation Street Footbridge Exchange Square No1 Deansgate Cathedral Gardens Urbis Shude Hill Interchange Arndale North Century Buildings Piccadilly Initiative Malmasion Hotel Piccadilly Gardens One Piccadilly Gardens New East Manchester Sportcity Masterplan City of Manchester Stadium Manchester Aquatics Centre Interchange - Central Park Fujitsu - Central Park New Islington St Peters Church Spinningfields Masterplan Manchester Magistrates Court No 1 Spinningfield Square Civil Justice Centre Chapter 4: Connections Chapter 5: Shaping the Future Summary Bibliography

Reviews

"'The Manchester story is a great one to tell. It is a story of adventure and innovation, and of a fierce independent spirit. It is a story of power, of confident and imaginative local leadership, to change perceptions, and hence reality. I now find a real local pride in what has been achieved, and a greater understanding of how the power of good architecture, and planning, changes lives for the better.' George Ferguson, President, Royal Institute of British Architects"