Shock City: Image and Architecture in Industrial Manchester

A bold reassessment of the major architectural monuments and urban forms of the world’s first industrial city: Manchester

From the mid-eighteenth century to the nineteen-twenties, from the birth of the Industrial Revolution to the height of Manchester’s global significance and the beginning of its decline, Shock City challenges the idea that Paris was the "capital of the nineteenth century." Mark Crinson reorients this issue around the development of industrial production, particularly cott...