Surfaces, texture, and manchester

'WHAT SHOULD THE SURFACE OF OUR CITIES LOOK LIKE?'

this line caught my attention and made me thinking about how we affect our cities how we create the textures allow abandoned buildings to overgrow and create different types of textures and characters in our cities.

'The surface of future cities is a multicolored texture formed by its people.'


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i really enjoyed the idea of how we can shape and mould our city and this is demonstrated so much in manchester with parts that are completely derelict and other parts full of life with eye catching graffiti and small reflections of residents characters shown on every street corner.