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Downtown Liverpool: Site Archive 2003 - 2006


Comment, news, images and features from across the site during it's run are published in the following pages. They give a snapshop of what DL has been featuring as well as providing an interesting sideways glance at how the city of Liverpool has changed over the three years of the project's life.

You are welcome to distribute excerpts from our archive but please credit us and provide a link back to the source, thank you.

  June 2006

Downtown Week 07, RHWL business schema, farewell

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May 2006

62 Castle St opens, Ocean liners back downtown, Fairtrade

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April 2006

Jane Jacobs dies, Eater events, The Bling bdg

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March 2006

3345, Central Tower, MetQuarter, Bohemia, Baltic Triangle

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February 2006 Shanghai, Culture Co., Church St, Unity, WiFi, Exchange Flags [go]
January 2006 Museum of Liverpool, downtown 'clutter', King Edward Tower [go]
December 2005 ICOMOS, Central Station, City Mayor, Seattle [go]
November 2005 Liverpool population, Merseytram, 3345, Music Week [go]
October 2005 New Business District, Castle St, Central Plaza, Alder Hey [go]
September 2005 Tenantspin, Urban Design Week, World Plaza, LCCI, Merseytram [go]
August 2005 Bank Holiday festivals, TV, Royal Hospital, 2nd birthday [go]
July 2005 hub festival, maglev, heritage, Big Dig, Torre Agbar [go]
June 2005 downtown week, Mann Island, architecture, festivals [go]
May 2005 LFC, 5 million hits, UNESCO, Paradise St, downtown [go]
April 2005 HMS Whimbrel, Civic Society, Space standards, City Lofts [go]
March 2005 Tall Buildings Consultation, Princes Dock, music, BID [go]
February 2005 HMRI, Lime Street, St Nick's, King's Dock, urban densities [go]
January 2005 Brunswick Quay, West Tower, Unity, street trading [go]
December 2004 Christmas in the city, tall buildings, street markets, NYC [go]
November 2004 [PSDA Centre, Byrom Street, Prince's Dock, City Lofts [go]
October 2004 GVA Grimley report, West Tower, Aluna, Old Hall Street [go]
September 2004 The Irish Way, Wirral, BQuay, Cologne, David Marks [go]
August 2004 Aluna Clock, 4th Grace, Diminishing city, Design Quality [go]
July 2004 Liverpool Fourth Grace, Transport, Grand Prix, Celtic cities [go]
June 2004 Tall Buildings , 4th grace revisions, D-day, Architecture Week [go]
May 2004 Met Cathedral, Brunswick Quay, Kings Dock, Penelope [go]
April 2004 Civil service jobs, PSDA retail, 20 skyscrapers, Lpool skyline [go]
March 2004 Cruise Liner terminal, Bus routes, Canal Link, MIPIM [go]
February 2004 L1 Baltic, London Rd, CitySquare, 'Retail' [go]
January 2004 City Council,, Kings Dock, Maritime Cities [go] 
December 2003 Central Station, Stanley Dock, BID, Cloud [go] 
November 2003 Prince's Dock, Birkenhead, Unity Development [go]


Downtown Liverpool e_newsletter archive
2003-2006

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Issue 31 Sep 05 Prince's Dock, HMRI, Merseytram , Valencia [go]
- Summer Break -  
Issue 30 June 22 Architecture Week Special [go]
Issue 29 June 8 Downtown Week Special [go]
Issue 28 May 20 Cruise Liner, Retail, Lime St Gateway, Pathfinder, Mersey [go]
Issue 27 Apr 12 Church St, Royal Hospital, Support, Merseytram, BID [go]
Issue 26 Mar 14 Liverpool Business Improvement District Special, tunnels.. [go]
Issue 25 Feb 22 Tall Buildings Special, consultation, HMRI [go]
Issue 24 Jan 14 Growth Issue: Brunswick Quay, Rodney St, Liverpool Skyline [go]
Issue 23 Dec 16 Downtown Week 05, Kings Dock, Old Hall St, The Big Dig [go]
Issue 22 Nov 26 Cornerstone, Central Library, TV, Newliverpool [go]
Issue 21 Nov 08 Prince's Dock, Homotopia, CCMS, city fireworks, NREA [go]
Issue 20 Oct 11 Special - Community Forum, Rebranding, E-digest [go]
Issue 19 Sep 14 Biennial, GME, Brunswick Quay, Liverpool TV, Digital games [go]
Issue 18 Sep 02 Concourse Tower, Metropolis, Ideopolis, Lime St Cinema [go]
Issue 17 Aug 10 PSDA, St Andrew's Church, Mann Island, Anfield, Million hits [go]
Issue 16 July 23 Fourth Grace Axed, LFC stadium, WHS, New Brighton [go]
- - Spring Break - -
Issue 15 May 20 PSDA special edition. [go]
Issue 14 May 14 International downtown, downtown meeting, city buzz [go]
Issue 13 Apr 26 250k hits, Ian Simpson plans, media pods, festivals [go]
Issue 12 Mar 18 Housing Design Awards, PSDA, New Brighton [go]
Issue 11 Mar 09 100k hits,, The 08 place, Corn Exchange, waterfront links [go]
Issue 10 Feb 19 Trams, Kings Dock, Exchange Flags, North Wales [go]
Issue 9 Jan 28 Bluecoat Development, Competitive Cities,, NWRA, Brighton [go]
Issue 8 Dec 16 Boundary commission, LLDC, LJLA, [go]
Issue 7 Nov 26 Liverpool Vision, City Centre movement, Exchange Flags [go]
Issue 6 Nov 19  Blundell St, Smart Tax, 'Manchester', Portland [go]
Issue 5 Nov 05 Media coverage, urban core, Toronto, FACT [go]
Issue 4 Oct 15 Livercool Awards, David Adjaye, LBC [go]
Issue 3 Sep 26 Ideopolis, Tour de France, Enterprise, View 146, Stadia [go]
Issue 2 Sep 11 WHS consultation, Kings Dock, Waterfront expo [go]
Issue 1 Aug 27 'Merseyside', BID, Boot Estate, Jo'burg [go] 


Downtown Liverpool news archive
2003-2006

Check out Downtown Liverpool in the media:

Arts Council England 03.06.05 Architecture Week 2005 [go]
Liverpool Daily Post 20.04.05 The Quiet Road Mystery [go]
Liverpool Echo 17.01.05 All Change on the Waterfront [go]
The Washington Post 09.12.04 Liverpool: A Rousing Comeback.. [go]
New Start Magazine 10.11.04 City-regions set to fill void after u-turn on devolution [go]
The Economist 16.09.04 Commerce or Culture?
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Regeneration & Renewal 31.07.04 Metropolis launch [go]
North Wales Post: Opinion 31.07.04 Metropolis launch: leader article [go]
North Wales Post 31.07.04
Metropolis launch [go]
Liverpool Daily Post 13.07.04 Yes?No? for World Heritage site: [contri: Mike Lyons] [go]
Liverpool Daily Post 28.06.04 Downtown Week On Hold to avoid 20/08 clash. [go]
Liverpool Daily Post 20.05.04 'Fourth Grace facing Redesign' [go]
Liverpool Echo 13.05.04 Smoke-free city? [go]
Liverpool Daily Post 20.04.04 Should Wallasey/Kirkdale constituencies merge cross-river ? [go]
Liverpool Daily Post 06.04.04 'Greater Liverpool to replace Merseyside?' [go]
Liverpool Daily Post 22.03.04 PSDA scheme to exhibit original 1715 dock [go]


'The worst of suburban life is that it wastes the one thing man cannot replace - life itself. To add hours of travel every week to a man's ordinary working day is just foolishly taking away all the advantages given by lessening hours in industry. I have been in houses at 7.30 or 8pm and heard the same tale: 'Not home yet. It takes him over an hour to get from work'. the kids don't see their father from weekend to weekend. He's merely the man who 'mucks about' in the garden every Sunday, to them. Young workers who ought to be learning their job as future citizens are arriving home too late and tired to do anything..'

Don't forget that whenever a new suburb is built and folk leave a crowded area, they need over twice as many theatres, cinemas, churches, clubs, etc, as they did before. This is not an exaggeration, since - with 12 houses to the acre - all distances are increased, compared with say 60 to the acre. In point of fact most of the new suburbs have far less amenities than the crowded area. A suburb usually has no centre of its communal life. Meeting-places, churches, playing fields, are essentials of a suburb and should be there first, not several years after a suburb is built.

Human life refuses to wait; and if a generation grows up before libraries, churches and public baths are provided, a generation is created which has learnt to do without them.

'The gardens are the best feature in a suburb. Most people like their own garden, but some would rather have public ones, with someone else to do the work in them'.

2005? 1935!
with thanks to the Listener

 
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