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Agricultural Bodies: Group presentation
The document discusses the Mancunian Way, a highway opened in 1967 that has been criticized for dividing communities, particularly between students and local residents. It highlights issues of access and infrastructure, as well as cultural elements like graffiti and skateboarding that have emerged in the area. Recommendations include creating new routes for better community integration.
Agricultural Bodies: Group presentation
- 1. Agricultural Bodies A MultiSensory Experience of the Mancunian Way
- 2. Landscape Architecture Students Sophie Thompson Jonathan Hyde WilfShaw Karl Barrett et al
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- 6. The planning forthe Mancunian Way was proposed and approved in 1961.
- 7. Officially opened byPrime Minister Harold Wilon on 5th May 1967.
- 8. Upgraded to Motorwaystatus in the 1970’s. MEN called it the ‘highway in the sky’ upon opening.
- 9. Background research onthe Mancunian Way compared to similar Highways
- 10. Pre-stressed concrete boxgirder structure taken from document State of the Art of a similar Highway structure to Mancunian Way (1975) In 1975 this was an ideology, ‘Highway in the Sky’, although now we understand through current analysis that there are current problems with the ‘None Space’, namely Access, dividing communities…
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- 12. Access, Light, GreyAnd Green Infrastructure & Community
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- 15. Familes and Students •A Divided Community • Housing Association • Student Village • Subcultures – Grafitti Artists, taggers..
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- 17. The Mancunian Waydivides the student community and the Hulme community
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- 21. Grey and GreenInfrastructure
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- 33. Assumptions made through ourvisual assessment of graffiti Skateboarders?
- 34. Assumptions made through ourvisual assessment of the ‘ramp-like’ structures Half Pipe?
- 35. Clarifying our assumptions… BenGibbs: Mancunian Way, Skate Park Manager
- 36. Clarifying our assumptions… BenGibbs: Mancunian Way, Skate Park Manager
- 38. Recommendations New route of access Integrationof the community
- 41. Agricultural Bodies Credits Sophie Thompson JonathanHyde Wilf Shaw Karl Barrett Special thanks to Ben Gibbs “We reinvent stuff. We find a use for something that no-one thought of”