From the Ground Up: New Islington 2001–2007

 

 

New Islington is Manchester’s Millennium Community programme, a fifteen year project to convert a ‘sink estate’ on the edge of the city centre into what the developers hope to be the ‘best place to live in Manchester’.

In From the Ground Up: New Islington 2001-2007, Len Grant follows the whole process from poring over Will Alsop’s master plan in the local pub to the first residents moving into their award-winning new homes.

“It’s my dream home,” says one new resident… “it’s bleeding Legoland!” declares a passer-by.

Interviews and comments from architects, local residents, engineers and contractors add to the chronology of imagery that make this book an important record of twenty-first century sustainable regeneration.

Published by Len Grant Photography on behalf of The New Islington Client Group

ISBN: 978-0-9526720-5-0  |  £13  |  120 pages  |  softback
Available from Cornerhouse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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