by Walter Menzies (Author)
A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED - the first part of the book - is an illustrated rant against the mediocre places that typify the first quarter of the twentieth century - a typology of the tat that is the product of motorhead, consumerist, corporate, neoliberal, business as usual place making. Its highest achievement has been the roundabout. HARBINGERS - Part 2 - explores 20 special places in England's Northwest - distinctive, positive, hopeful, lively, undervalued, sometimes endangered, often below the radar, that signal the potential of a more sustainable future...places in transition, places reinventing themselves...changing places.
Author Biography
Walter Menzies is a sustainable development advocate and champion of England's Northwest Region. Formerly CEO of Mersey Basin Campaign and UK Sustainable Development Commissioner. Books include England's Northwest and the battle for sustainable development (2014); Partnership for action - Groundwork the early years (co-ed 2012). Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool, Civic Design; chair of Manchester and Pennine Waterway Partnership; trustee of the Land Trust. Photographer, Scottish diaspora, long term citizen of England's Northwest.