Abstract
This article explores the suggestion by architect Will Alsop that the future prosperity and influence of Northern English cities will be best achieved through merging into one discrete urban entity facilitated by the M62 motorway corridor. The article will locate Alsop's plan within the concerns of literature drawn from the mobilities strand of social science research, as well as architectural theories of urbanism and contemporaneous governmental policy. The article concludes by looking at the Northern English region and Alsop's plan within a national, European and global context.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 61-81 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Mobilities |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - Feb 2010 |
Keywords
- Northern England
- cities
- motorways
- non-places
- place reflexivity
- polycentric regional planning
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