The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
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Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
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Just about all compared to the UK. The UK has appalling cities. Look at Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Brum and Liverpool. Nice places eh! Only the smaller cathedral cities are nice, which in size are not cities, only towns. Although Liverpool is getting better in parts, it is still a dreary place in most parts.
The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
Save Liverpool Docks and Waterways - Click
Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
Giving Liverpool a full Metro - CLICK
Rapid-transit rail: Everton, Liverpool & Arena - CLICK
Save Royal Iris - Sign Petition
[QUOTE=Waterways;200963]By your responsible I don't think you at all. Al you have done is spout propaganda issued by the Countryside organisations who are backed by large landowners. YOU have nothing to gain by keeping the status quo. Young people even less.
I write for myself thanks. I don't regurgitate without thought - like yourself
I don't need your help, thank you. I am not even slightly interested in the primacy of your points or your patronising snipes.
Why? Too hard for you?
I'm not interested in doing your donkey work for you. Why should I read what you have selected from an unaccountable reference when you clearly don't have the nouse to assess what you read critically and can't draw out your own conclusions succinctly and substantiate them by reference to credible sources? Perhaps you don't understand that burying people in undigested and questionable screeds convinces no one? Are you out of short pants yet?
European cities have a better handle on inner city living and are genuinely less suburban. They accept denser living more readily and are also less hung up on ownership. Let's take the centre of Paris or Amsterdam for example...whoops, maybe not
I agree our cities are gettting better and there's more people in them and it should be encouraged. I don't think suburbia is an appropriate model for the inner cities (as recently suggested by Beatrice Frankel's advocacy of the Eldonian Village).
I agree on the whole, the Europeans I met never seemed to travel to work as far as we do. Likewise in shopping, seem to be nearer their homes. We seem to be going the American way with out of town shopping areas. I'd like to see that stopped and the shops brought back into towns. We have to get away from the car.
It's not so much more housing needed as less people. It's the infrastructure such as roadways and amenities such as energy and the services such as health and the unemployment due to an almost none existent manufacturing base that can't sustain millions of extra people.
Yes, rocket!, 'fraid so. We're gonna need more housing and less people and better urban design.
Hopefully we've seen the last of Project Jennifer (and people who say 'the high street is dead') but just look at the proliferation of bl**dy Tescoes. Take Old Swan for example - an urban crime. A new Trafford Centre on Bidston Moor... more and more cars and against all sense.
Forget the stately homes and lavish public buildings, it's the everyday or vernacular architecture, which appeals to me. Its is functional and so much the better for a bit of decoration. Streets, shops, cinemas. A wealth of styles and, take cinemas for example, a generic style of their own. Often unrecorded, they are a snapshot of a vanished way of life.
It is not possible to preserve everything, but as long as they are photographed, future generations can see how things were.
We cannot produce plasterwork like the pic below, for ordinary buildings, but it is personally great for me to record all the detailing, before the wreckers ball gets it!!!
You take them for granted - until one day they're gone!
The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
Save Liverpool Docks and Waterways - Click
Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
Giving Liverpool a full Metro - CLICK
Rapid-transit rail: Everton, Liverpool & Arena - CLICK
Save Royal Iris - Sign Petition
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