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Article: Turning up the northern lights. (economic growth of Newcastle, England)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 3, 1989
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Turning on the northern lights
Government efforts to narrow the north-south divide and reverse urban decay rely heavily on a new entrepreneurial spirit. On Tyneside, Thatcherism has been battling with history
The centre of Newcastle, with its clean, classical 1837 architecture, is testimony to the scale and confidence of the area's first industrial boom. Over the river at Gateshead is the concrete expression of its second: the MetroCentre, Europe's biggest shopping mall. Glitzy, with a slightly temporary air, it symbolises the undoubted resurgence of entrepreneurship in the area for the first time in 100 years. It's happening, it's exciting--but is it ...