Liverpool One

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, the city council set out a challenge for international developers as part of an ambitious initiative to reverse this trend and encourage people to visit, live in and invest in Liverpool once again. The vision was for a reimagined and extended city centre, one that rethought the vast and under-used space between the principal shopping area and the city's historic docks. Forty-seven developers expressed an interest and, after a rigorous selection process, the job went to Grosvenor. The result is a 42-acre transformation, a mixed-use, retail-led development that embodies both contemporary urban design thinking and a deep sensitivity to ideas of place, identity and scale. Containing more than 30 individually designed buildings - including department stores, a bus station, apartments, hotels and a five acre park - this complex project was completed within an ambitious timetable to exceptionally high-quality thresholds. Grosvenor, and its 26 firms of architects, have created an entirely new, but uniquely Liverpudlian, urban district. This book tells the story of this Herculean project, its origins, its design and its delivery.

ISBN 0470714093   Pages 256 ISBN13 9780470714096 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1258 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Published in Chichester Imprint John Wiley & Sons Ltd   Height (mm) 248 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 221 Publication date 17 Apr 2009   Spine width (mm) 24 DEWEY 711.5522   Academic level General, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

Ch. 1		Historical Context		8
Ch. 2		The 'Urban Renaissance'		36
Ch. 3		Consent		80
Ch. 4		Retail Strategy		108
Ch. 5		Architecture		142
Ch. 6		Delivery		196
Ch. 7		Reflections		226
		Appendices		244
		Index		253
		Picture Credits		256

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