Liverpool One – Remaking a City Centre Littlefield Hardback John Wiley & Sons

Liverpool OneRemaking a City Centre\nAuthor(s): David Littlefield\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc\nISBN-13: 9780470714096, 978-0470714096\nSynopsis\nLiverpool 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; industries closed or moved away, postwar architecture was mostly mediocre and the citys population fell as citizens sought employment further afield. Local people even began to shop elsewhere. 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 .