The Manchester City Skyline
@arthurchappell (45002)
Preston, England
October 19, 2015 2:30am CST
With so much scaffolding, construction sites and cranes hovering over our tower blocks I find myself wondering what the city will look like when we finish building it. Everywhere I look there is a new building going up, and in Manchester much of it is hotels and expensive apartment property. With so many homeless in the city the endless tetras-like reconstruction of the rich people’s playground looks absurd an even offensive. I wonder when the bubble will burst and if the properties will then become cheap housing for everyone else.
The photo is of one of our finer buildings, the Manchester CIS Tower.
Arthur Chappell
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
19 Oct 15
yes there is that though Manchester has never recovered from the trashing of the city's small businesses for the Arndale shopping mall monstrosity to go up
@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
19 Oct 15
@boiboing yes but sadly it survived though many surrounding properties were trashed - amazing that no one was killed. I heard the blast from three miles away
@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
19 Oct 15
@arthurchappell It's a terrible thing to say but I think it's widely agreed that the IRA couldn't have picked an uglier building to attack than the Arndale.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
19 Oct 15
these things will keep changing and people reach higher and higher, I much prefer the rural areas with sky and space
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
19 Oct 15
The obsession with height does suggest an attempt to outdo Nimrod and the other builders of the Tower of Babel
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
19 Oct 15
A frightening but very realistic danger @firef1y
