BIRMINGHAM'S BUZZ

摘要

At the turn of the millennium Birmingham could have been written off as a city with an identity problem. For decades the UK's second biggest metropolis had been overlooked, a bit-part on the political scene bypassed by politicians and passengers alike on their way to London or the North, which relied on a road network that choked investment as much as it did pedestrians and was deemed second-best to Manchester as the financial and cultural alternative to London.