The publication draws on Manchester's experience to show how the inner city provided terraced houses for the working classes while spatial homes were built for the middle-classes in the suburbs. Its coverage of more recent changes underlines the city's latter-day renaissance resulting from investment in physical infrastructure, prestige projects and good architecture.
- Manchester: Shaping the City is available, priced £19.95, from the RIBA (tel) 020 7256 7222.
