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Article: Shifted tideways: Liverpool's changing fortunes.(City overview)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Regarding Liverpool, all must commence with the Mersey. On the primacy of the river, all are agreed. So Henry James' English Hours began in a smoky dawn of arrival at the Mersey bar, and so do all the best books on Liverpool. In 1907, Walter Dixon Scott's summary of the city at its confident peak, Liverpool, opened with 'The River': '... not merely because Liverpool owes her actual existence to the River, but also because the whole quality, the "virtue" of that existence has been determined by the completeness of the dependency'. (1) Likewise, Quentin Hughes in 1964 opened Seaport still the best introduction to Liverpool's architecture--with 'The River and the Docks'. (2) ...
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