He writes that “we can perhaps think of the project as a form of `corporate gentrification’…whereby `real estate development becomes a centrepiece of the city’s productive economy, an end in itself’…” Or in plain English, that Media City is more about building loads of luxury apartments, expensive commercial spaces and places for “elite consumption practices” than anything else. Read full article at the Salford Star website.
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Scrap the licence fee
14.12.2008 08:37
The BBC is a mass manufacturer of trashy entertainement and dodgy news. We don't need it in Salford and we shouldn't be forced to fund it with threats of fines and criminal records.
Pete