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20 Jan 2005, 10:38
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Clerk
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Northern Super City
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4187409.stm
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A vision of a northern England in which people could live in Hull, commute to Liverpool, shop in Leeds and go out in Manchester in one day has gone on show.
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott mooted the idea of a "super city" stretching from coast to coast along the M62 in February 2004.
Architect Will Alsop has now unveiled his idea of how the 80-mile long, 15-mile wide conurbation would look. [...] Barnsley could be remodelled on a Tuscan hill village
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So who is up for living in such a place? I can see some of the benefits but as I'm not that familiar with the region I'm reluctant to comment too heavily.
p.s. the highlight of the article is this caption : "Liverpool could be extended on stilts into the sea"
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20 Jan 2005, 10:43
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Re: Northern Super City
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20 Jan 2005, 11:15
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Bored
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Re: Northern Super City
So scousers would be able to come to Sheffield, nick my car stereo and go back to Liverpool to sniff glue all in one day?
No thanks!
Oh and the stupidest thing in that article is this:
"People in Manchester would like to live and work in buildings built in the shape of a teddy bear, Mr Alsop believes."
Yes. I'm sure they would
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20 Jan 2005, 11:27
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Re: Northern Super City
God no! I can get to Manchester in just over an hour, do this and it will take me all flippin' day!
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20 Jan 2005, 11:36
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Freedom Fanatic
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Re: Northern Super City
The world needs more Northerners.
How else will we get the cannon fodder to rape the world?!?!
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20 Jan 2005, 11:47
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lolly roffle
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Re: Northern Super City
WTF is he on?!
You can get from Liverpool to Hull and back in a day, so i dont see how building extra houses/offices/whatever and increasing traffic on some of the busiest motroways is going to improve this . Not that i would particularly chose to visit either place though.
I cant see teddy bear shaped buildings or houses on stilts going down too well in Blackburn. A few new 'normal' houses, better shopping area, better transport system and attracting new industries would go down much better.
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20 Jan 2005, 12:11
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Brain Overload
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Re: Northern Super City
utter, utter bollox.
nuff said
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20 Jan 2005, 12:21
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The Original Terran
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Re: Northern Super City
Pah
I am from the wirral(next to liverpool) so i looked and anything that increases the size of liverpool is a bad thing.
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20 Jan 2005, 13:15
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Re: Northern Super City
This seems like a really bad idea.
Also, that picture looks like those things you could build in Sim City 2000 - Arcologies or whatever they were called.
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20 Jan 2005, 13:21
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Made of Twigs
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Re: Northern Super City
Quote:
Originally Posted by Matthew, Wirral
My 4 year old child could construct better designs out of sticky backed plastic, egg cartons and washing up liquid bottles. Being familiar with his previous design idea for Liverpool he holds no credibility with me.
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20 Jan 2005, 13:36
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InSomniac
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by Ninja_spammer
The world needs more Northerners.
How else will we get the cannon fodder to rape the world?!?!
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shhhh, dont mention the word rape...perle will google and find this thread
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20 Jan 2005, 14:25
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Godfather
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Re: Northern Super City
they all reminded me of a liquorice allsorts type affair.
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20 Jan 2005, 14:29
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Lord Denning
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Re: Northern Super City
The only bit that isn't completely moronic is "the centre of Bradford would be transformed with parkland and a lake built in the middle of the city" (although the design for that is still stupid).
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20 Jan 2005, 14:41
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by JammyJim
they all reminded me of a liquorice allsorts type affair.
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Rock on!
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20 Jan 2005, 15:55
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by melandron
utter, utter bollox.
nuff said
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20 Jan 2005, 16:09
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Brain Overload
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Re: Northern Super City
Ok i know i said nuff said but:
Where would i be able to live to escape the sprawling ****hole that calls itself London? there is a reason some of us choose not to live there! it is too big for it's own good, can we not realise past mistakes and keep places somewhat nice to live
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20 Jan 2005, 16:13
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Lord Denning
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by melandron
Ok i know i said nuff said but:
Where would i be able to live to escape the sprawling ****hole that calls itself London?
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Caithness.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson
He was crowned in York Cathedral as 'Expert in the West' by Pope Urban III in 1186.
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20 Jan 2005, 16:29
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Chief over all Monkeys
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Re: Northern Super City
I dont know why the government is encouraging northerners. I thought they would have realised that those thugs needed to be whipped into place and have their accents forcibly changed.
Bloody coal miners.
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20 Jan 2005, 16:30
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by Zar
I dont know why the government is encouraging northerners. I thought they would have realised that those thugs needed to be whipped into place and have their accents forcibly changed.
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I think you're confusing 'The North' with 'Newcastle'.
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Originally Posted by Zar
Bloody coal miners.
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Not since Maggie!
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20 Jan 2005, 16:32
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Chief over all Monkeys
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
I think you're confusing 'The North' with 'Newcastle'.
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+ manchester
+ liverpool
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20 Jan 2005, 16:48
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by Zar
+ manchester
+ liverpool
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They're not part of the North, they're part of the South!
God, it's great being parochial.
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20 Jan 2005, 17:06
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I am.
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
They're not part of the North, they're part of the South!
God, it's great being parochial.
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don't be absurd.
birmingham's in the north too.
anything north of bletchly
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20 Jan 2005, 17:13
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Registered User
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Re: Northern Super City
Stupid ideas like this are what happens when you let the government get involved in areas they have no business, such as town planning.
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20 Jan 2005, 17:20
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Lord Denning
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by Nodrog
Stupid ideas like this are what happens when you let the government get involved in planning.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson
He was crowned in York Cathedral as 'Expert in the West' by Pope Urban III in 1186.
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20 Jan 2005, 17:54
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Aardvark is a funny word
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by Yahwe
don't be absurd.
birmingham's in the north too.
anything north of newport pagnell
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if you're putting me on the border, i'd rather be a mile south than a mile north of it
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20 Jan 2005, 19:50
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Gone
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by The Report
He also proposes transforming the South Yorkshire town of Barnsley by modelling it on a Tuscan hill village, complete with its own walls.
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It's like the sixties never happened for these people.
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20 Jan 2005, 20:10
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Re: Northern Super City
As long as they build a wall around the whole monstrosity, and use it to hold criminals in (a la Escape from New York), then it has my thumbs up! ;o
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20 Jan 2005, 20:19
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by Tomkat
As long as they build a wall around the whole monstrosity, and use it to hold criminals in
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Build the wall over-night so the midlanders can't escape and your suggestion will be implemented to the satisfaction of all.
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20 Jan 2005, 20:25
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
Build the wall over-night so the midlanders can't escape and your suggestion will be implemented to the satisfaction of all.
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They're as good as criminals anyway, so let's get going!
......What's the ratio of concrete again?
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20 Jan 2005, 20:33
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by Tomkat
They're as good as criminals anyway, so let's get going!
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Yes, that was the joke.
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20 Jan 2005, 20:34
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Gone
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Re: Northern Super City
Just remove all the urban populations in the country, and send them out into the fields. Return the country to some kind of largely feudal existance, as the only means of bringing about Communist progress and utopia. Also, bring back the Prince-Bishops of Durham so they can lord it over places with less culture.
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20 Jan 2005, 20:38
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Bored
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Re: Northern Super City
Give Independence to the English from the London Media Set.
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20 Jan 2005, 20:40
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
Yes, that was the joke.
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Thanks for pointing it out. I do have difficulty sometimes with this complicated sense of humour thing. I'm just a simple lad, y'know.
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20 Jan 2005, 20:44
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Gone
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Re: Northern Super City
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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
p.s. the highlight of the article is this caption : "Liverpool could be extended on stilts into the sea"
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Why bother with the stilts?
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20 Jan 2005, 20:46
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:alpha:
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Re: Northern Super City
Why bother with the extension? Why not just a complete geographical shift?
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20 Jan 2005, 22:22
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Re: Northern Super City
This strikes me as hilariously unfeasible. It will never happen.
Edit: not deliberately, anyway.
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20 Jan 2005, 23:47
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I dunno...
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Re: Northern Super City
I haven't slept through Febuary and March and woken up on April 1st, have I?
That Prescott and his pies...
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21 Jan 2005, 00:58
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I AM THE ONE & ONLY
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Re: Northern Super City
MrL_JaKiri , proper north is tribal if they linked us up too much we'd knock it down, it will be a cold day in hell before i live in smogville.
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21 Jan 2005, 11:02
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cynic
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Re: Northern Super City
what a very strange idea
is that guy on smack or something?
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21 Jan 2005, 11:37
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mmm lambs
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Re: Northern Super City
Them designs are hideous, who the hell approved them and what in God's name were they thinking.
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