A city's evolution can be read in its cartography and Liverpool is no exception. From the earliest medieval times, when the city began as a modest cluster of seven streets, through its Georgian and Victorian mercantile heyday, to a modern port city of the British Empire, Liverpool has focused on the River Mersey and its dockland landscape as a gateway to the world. The outcome was one of the greatest commercial waterfronts in Europe, lined with muscular warehouses. From this riverside core, the development spread out and up, adapting to the city's rolling topography.
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