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Liverpool One: The Remaking of a City Centre

David Littlefield

  • Format: Book

  • Pages: 40

  • Publisher: John Wiley

  • Date Published: Apr 2009

  • Stock Code: 68718

  • Binding: Hardback

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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 Shanghais Bund. The city suffered a slow decline in the latter half of the 20th century and as Manchesters 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 citys historic docks. Forty-seven developers expressed an interest and, after a rigorous selection process, the job went to Grosvenor.

Livepool One: The Remaking of a City Centrefocuses on the design, planning and development of a whole new quarter of Liverpool. 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.

About the Author

David Littlefield

David Littlefield is an architectural writer. He has a master’s degree in Interior and Spatial Design and has taught design at the London University of the Arts (Chelsea) and the University of Bath. David writes for a wide range of architecture magazines, notably Building Design.

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