Citizen Manchester

Dan Dubowitz, Alan Ward, Bethan Hirst

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Manchester University Press
31 March 2014

Photographs: collections; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial

In 2008, Manchester decided to embark on a counter-cyclical project, much as the city fathers had done in the last great recession, and invest significantly in two civic buildings, two buildings that were cornerstones of the making of the first modern industrialised city: Manchester Town Hall Extension and Manchester Central Library.

Early on in this major redevelopment project, artists Dan Dubowitz and Alan Ward were given privileged and open access to witness this transformational period in the life of these two iconic buildings. Through large-format photographs and interviews taken and conducted over a period of eighteen months, they captured the moment when the city's citizens and workers had been locked out and the spaces were being stripped bare; revealing both a glimpse of what they had been and what they might become.

The artwork provides insights on the reciprocal relationship between people and place, and reveals how the refurbishment of a building can go far beyond physical refurbishment, questioning the relationships between a city, its citizens and place. -- .

By: Dan Dubowitz, Alan Ward
Other: Bethan Hirst
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 380mm, Width: 380mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 2.037kg
ISBN: 9780719095733
ISBN 10: 0719095735
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 31 March 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Special projects 2. Wisdom is the principal thing 3. I was born... in the crime section 4. Worshipping at the altar of process 5. Dangerous buildings 6. Concilio et Labore 7. Coleridge at 44 8. Crisis in heaven 9. What would Vincent Harris do? 10. Vincent Harris, Stanley Jast and Charles Nowell 11. The Project 12. Echoes 13. Main Contractor 14. Sub-contractors / One Team 15. Apprentices Artists’ acknowledgements -- .

Dan Dubowitz is a multi-disciplinary artist, photographer and cultural master-planner. His previous book for MUP was The Peeps: The presence of absence about the world's first industrial suburb Alan Ward is an award-winning designer, photographer and artist who lives in Manchester

Reviews for Citizen Manchester

The result is a book - published as Central Library reopens to the public - which is not a dry account of a construction project, but instead an artistic appreciation of this Romanesque wedding cake of a building at a momentous point in its history. It combines archive photography with still life studies of books, furniture and clutter. There are lovely little details such as the list of items found during renovation of the readers' tables, including an unfinished essay on James I, an Orange Club biscuit and sweet and crisp wrappers spanning several eras. Howard Bradbury, Cheshire Life, May 2014 -- Howard Bradbury. Cheshire Life