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Photograph: Nathan Cox, The Best of Manchester Awards
place matters. So whether its getting to grips with it but it’s to the business and community, council to have a Creative Director
transport, architecture, culture, not really in their history or creating a new element in the is a provocative thing in itself.
education or sustainability, culture to invent the place.This is supply and demand necessary Everyone I meet internationally
whatever it is, just start to set the why Original Modern was a bit to build Manchester’s future. wants to know what I’m doing
target of innovation again, of of a challenge at first. Because Saville also believes manufacturing here in Manchester and wonders
original thinking in sync with the it wasn’t just a matter of going opportunities may potentially if it’s something they should be
times. Be a place where new things to the planning department to arise out of the recession as the doing. It’s part of the news. Just
happen and new things that are say let’s get on with it. That’s government begins to internalise doing the work and being part
relevant to the urban condition. not how planning works. So the the national economy and starts to of it, is in itself enhancing to the
That’s what has to be done.” last four years has been about produce things they haven’t made brand that is Manchester.”
Saville maintains that it’s as much instilling Original Modern as a for decades. The Manchester And all this forward thinking
the private sector’s responsibility direction for the city. And it’s as International Festival is one of must be working. The newly
as it is the public sector’s to rise much, if not more, the private the projects to come out the released eighth edition of Lonely
to the challenge of change. “If you sector that have to deliver it. new concept. “MIF is another Planet’s Great Britain Guide calls
look at the original Victorian city, They run hotels and shopping, thing we’ve done that is the Manchester a ‘modern metropolis
quite plainly the people who were businesses, colleges and universities perfect response to Original that has embraced 21st-century
on the ground here were the people and a city is a formula of supply Modern. It’s new, progressive style and technology like no
who built the city. They built the and demand.You have to stimulate work and it’s writing new pages other in Britain.’ The notoriously
town hall and the grand Victorian demand and then try to help in the book.” straight-talking backpackers’
buildings as statements of intent support the supply.” So what comes next? “Start handbook also says ‘few cities in
and pride from the individuals Peter believes the city’s with achievable tasks. It’s important Europe have embraced change
and families who were making opportunities may lie in education, to be ruthlessly pragmatic. I’m so enthusiastically.’
themselves in Manchester. It’s a with Manchester housing the not in love with Manchester. Perhaps then this city is
very different socio-economic largest university campus in Europe, I don’t have any illusions about well on its way to carving a path
culture that we live in now. That and the potential to create an Manchester. My role, which is of importance and significance
sense of responsibility of the future environment to keep the graduates infrequent, is as a provocateur into the 21st century and
and the well-being of the here in the city. Media may also across sectors to say, can it be Manchester really is as modern
community economically has fallen become a likely growth sector with better? How are they doing it as it is original. n
upon city councils. Manchester the BBC moving approximately in other places? That’s my remit,
Council has been exemplary in 1,500 staff to the city that will add to ask questions. Just for a city