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Feebleness of the Northern powerhouse / Hatherley, Owen

Hatherley, Owen	Journal Article
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The Northern Powerhouse is an ambitious-sounding plan to revitalize the north of England and create a unified region to rival London. Architectural critic and author Owen Hatherley, however, contends that the Conservative Party’s development strategy mistakenly treats the north as a single entity, and the fiercely independent cities are unlikely to come together.

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United Kingdom ; Urbanization ; England ; Manchester

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Seeing beyond an ‘ethnic enclave: the time/space of Manchester Chinatown / Barabantseva, Elena

Barabantseva, Elena	Article
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Research on Chinatowns stresses the spatial aspects of their production as communal urban spaces. This is particularly evident in the prevailing rhetoric of ethnic ‘enclaves’ that is common in the literature on Chinatowns. This article stresses the importance of taking into account the temporal dimensions of the examinations of space and migrants’ relationships with the city. The argument maintains that, although Manchester Chinatown incorporates many layers of time, only some of them are acknowledged. This view ties both space and people into a particular temporality that is associated with a predetermined culture and tradition. The article shows how relocation from Chinatown to a non-ethnically defined urban area makes it possible for community organisations to depart from the essentialised ethnic, cultural, and social associations produced through dominant understandings of migrant communal space.

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Space ; Time ; Chinatown ; Manchester ; Migrant Community

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