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August
2015
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11:40
Europe/London
Stories from Europe's busiest bus route
- Stories from the people who use the busy road
- Project will map this part of the city
- Hashtag #Mcr_OxfordRdStories
Stories from The Road is a new story-telling project that casts light on life and work along Oxford Road.
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The people who live, work and travel along Europe's busiest bus route are telling their stories through a new project which will document life on Manchester’s Oxford Road Corridor.
From a cyclist to a doctor, a book seller and an artist, University of Manchester researchers are collating the tales of those who spend their days on the bustling stretch where Rutherford split the atom, Alan Turing pioneered the first computer, Graphene was first isolated and LS Lowry studied.
The Stories from The Road project will map this part of the city through the words of more than 20 workers, commuters and residents who are part of its world-class universities, hospitals, scientific hubs and cultural attractions and the communities that they neighbour.
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“Stories from The Road provides unique insights into an important area of Manchester. It reveals the multiple ways that people experience and interact with the city. It shows how urban planning, architecture, and infrastructure networks combine to create a distinctive ‘sense of place’ – all through the words of those who experience this place first hand.”
Andrew Karvonen
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Oxford Road is one of the most important areas of economic growth in Manchester today. The project is a collaboration between The University of Manchester’s urban research group cities@manchester and up and coming Manchester-based writer Sarah Butler – her first novel is called Ten Things I've Learnt About Love and her latest book is called Before the Fire.
Andrew Karvonen, co-director of cities@manchester and Senior Lecturer in Architecture & Urbanism at The University of Manchester, said: “Stories from The Road provides unique insights into an important area of Manchester. It reveals the multiple ways that people experience and interact with the city. It shows how urban planning, architecture, and infrastructure networks combine to create a distinctive ‘sense of place’ – all through the words of those who experience this place first hand.”
You can read Stories from The Road here and the hashtag is #Mcr_OxfordRdStories