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June 22nd 2005
Liverpool eDigest


Hello Downtowners,

Thanks to everyone who took part in and organised events for Downtown Week 05!

With the week now having successfully taken place, confidence in the concept has been established and support is growing. Press coverage, mainly through Radio Merseyside and the Daily Post and Echo was fantastic [1, 2]. Awareness of the week’s designation was widespread, a sound building block for next year now exists! Please take a moment to send us your comments at the foot of this email.

And June continues with a great programme for Architecture Week 2005 - a national event which this year has plenty to keep Liverpool urbanists busy!

 

  

17th-26th June 2005

Downtown Highlights

Backcracks and Jiggers: lessons in urban dynamism
Join the Downtown Liverpool team this evening, 18:30 GMT for a tour through the sidestreets, alleyways and passages of Old Liverpool - with perhaps some lessons for the New. Meet outside Corn Exchange, Fenwick Street. Until 19:30 followed by drinks.

Courtyard Architecture in Arab Cities
As part of Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival 9 - 23 June Dr Magda Sibley, Liverpool University, gives a talk at World Museum Liverpool, 12:30 on 23rd.

Sir Terry Farrell
Internationally known architect and urbanist at RSA/RIBA Lecture, 18:00-20:00, 23rd at Tea Factory. email for invites.

Neutral Impact Architecture?
Another walk from Downtown Liverpool - join us at the Metropolitan Cathedral piazza 12:00-13:30 on the 23rd for a walk to the Pier Head.

Shrinking Cities
A talk from the architects responsible for the herd of cows currently grazing in downtown Toxteth! 23rd, 8pm RENEW rooms. email for invite

e-space Lab
Artists Philip Courtenay and Peter Hatton explore with the Bluecoat team how spaces can be made into places through activities of everyday life [info] 25th all day.

Urban Intervention workshop
Cecilia Andersson calling for 10 participating artists to work in otherwise locked up buildings in downtown Liverpool. email her for info

Up On the Roof
A roof top hop across the city centre to view the changing face of Liverpool, with Peter Rix of Liverpool Vision email. 24th 10:00-14:00.

and we love this one!:

Tea, Biscuits And A Natter About The State Of Architecture
'Why not come and meet others to discuss the delights/torments that is light, form and space, over cup of tea and chocolate disgestives'
22nd-26th, 15:00-17:30 at bunker discussions, 1 Purser Grove, Wavertree.

and lots lots more! check out the Arch Week website click 'Find' and type 'liverpool'

 
 

Downtown

Why limit the potential?
Downtown is the exploratory and engine for a huge variety of activities, initiatives and enterprises.
We have never understood the Liverpool mentality of 'either, or'.
What downtown does is allow you to do it ALL.

Check out this downtown-based Social Enterprise portal www.sea-online.net which helps you work out how to do just that.

Delivering the goods?
The Culture Company are getting into full swing, building up their contribution to the city's potentially massive offer during 2008. Jason Harborow was recently interviewed by Business Insider, take a look at the article and see if you can gauge how downtown will measure up during the year .

Money Matters
Depressing news that now both the regional development agency and the EU objective one programme look likely not to give any money for LFC's new stadium [Daily Post].

It falls after news last week that the govt also does not wish to make up the £64 million shortfall on the revised costs for Line 1 of Merseytram [Regen.net].

As one reader reflected in the local letters page this morning:
"should the tram fail, we would have had eight years of a high-spending Labour government in a booming economy, helped by billions of European money, without a single major public infrastructure project to show for it"

Phew!

Just as well then that at long last, Kings Waterfont is going ahead -


Kings Dock - Green Light

- with groundworks having started earlier this week [EP]

 
- and finally

What would you like more of in Downtown Week 2006?

Ist there anything else you would like to tell us about Downtown Week 2005? Then let us know here! Thanks
   

 


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