Industrial evolution

摘要

A short stroll from the city centre, Ancoats conservation area is wedged between Manchester's reanimated Northern Quarter and the bright new horizon of New Islington, massing to the east just beyond the boundary of the Rochdale Canal. In contrast, the Ancoats conservation context is austere and gridded, defined by, typically, sixto eight-storey red-brick mill buildings in canyon-like streets with narrow pavements -a tough urban grain interrupted by the odd car parking lot, testamentto many decades of decline and depopulation.