Manchester: Something rich and strange by Dobraszczyk, Paul

Manchester: Something Rich and Strange (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781526144140)

Vendor: Paul Dobraszczyk
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$18.95
$18.95
$18.95
Subtotal: $18.95
Manchester: Something rich and strange by Dobraszczyk, Paul

Manchester: Something Rich and Strange

$18.95
Manchester: Something rich and strange by Dobraszczyk, Paul

Manchester: Something Rich and Strange

$18.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x

What is Manchester? Moving far from the glitzy shopping districts and architectural showpieces, away from cool city-centre living and modish cultural centres, this book shows us the unheralded, under-appreciated and overlooked parts of Greater Manchester in which the majority of Mancunians live, work and play. It tells the story of the city thematically, using concepts such a 'material', 'atmosphere', 'waste', 'movement' and 'underworld' to challenge our understanding of the quintessential post-industrial metropolis.

Bringing together contributions from twenty-five poets, academics, writers, novelists, historians, architects and artists from across the region alongside a range of captivating photographs, this book explores the history of Manchester through its chimneys, cobblestones, ginnels and graves. This wide-ranging and inclusive approach reveals a host of idiosyncrasies, hidden spaces and stories that have until now been neglected.

Author: Paul Dobraszczyk
ISBN-10: 152614414X
ISBN-13: 9781526144140
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2020
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.10d
By Paul Dobraszczyk
By Paul Dobraszczyk
x

Paul Dobraszczyk is a researcher and writer based in Manchester and a Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. He is the author of Future Cities: Architecture and the Imagination (2019) and The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay (2017).

Sarah Butler is a novelist and Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School, Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of Jack & Bet (2020) and Ten Things I've Learnt About Love: A Novel (2014) and explores the relationship between writing and place through her consultancy UrbanWords.

Recently Viewed Products