Manchester Street Scene on Deansgate — Taxi, Cranes, and City Architecture

8 October 2019 · Manchester

Deansgate on a clear summer afternoon, the road narrowing toward a skyline of Victorian brick and construction cranes rising behind it. A white Toyota Prius public-hire taxi leads the frame, office towers flanking the street on both sides — one glass-and-steel new-build, one mid-century concrete. The city is mid-renovation: scaffolding and hoardings on the left, pedestrians moving past the Spaces coworking entrance on the right. Old Manchester and new Manchester, sharing the same road at the same moment.