Like a proud parent marking their toddler’s height with a pencil on a door frame, Manchester’s leaders can look at the city centre and see how it has grown.
New skyscrapers keep pushing the upper limit of the second city, with the crown of ‘town’s tallest building’ set to pass to a new 71-storey tower on the edge of Castlefield. It will sit next to the current holder, Deansgate Square’s south tower, at 200m (656 ft) tall.
Now, a new artistic project is attempting to act as a cautionary tale to Manchester’s top brass — and it’s been written by people who know what it’s like to be on the fringes of the city. The creators, Manchester Street Poem and Blast Theory, say they want people to ‘confront people’s perspective about what the city could be’.
