IN/between: Community occupying the interstitial
Manchester / United Kingdom /Victoria University of Wellington
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Once a hub of industry in Manchester, the effects of post-industrial urbanisation are evident in Hulme’s perforated urban fabric. As factories
closed and industry declined, abandoned industrial lots became voids in the modernising landscape. Once home to the working-class people these voids now evoke memories of poor communities displaced by Manchester’s modernisation.
The monotonous rhythm of factory life, though demanding, fostered rich human connections. Employment drew residents, but it was the spaces between work and home that truly fostered community. Left behind by development, these spaces are now abandoned, derelict, and overgrown-voids on the urban periphery.
