
Once a drab, grimy urban handbasket case,
England’s second-largest metropolis – nicknamed ‘Brum’ – has spectacularly re-invented itself every bit a vibrant, cultural hot spot. Huge regeneration projects accept breathed life into the industrial landscapes as well as canals that crisscross the city; straightaway at that spot are to a greater extent than glamorous shops, buzzing pubs as well as jumping nightclubs than you lot tin milk tremble a bargepole at.
Mind you, it’s however no crude painting. The familiar destructive brew of WWII bombs as well as woeful town planning left a legacy of concrete as well as telephone roads that volition likely never fully hold upward disguised. But, no matter: Birmingham is making the most of what it’s got. Established cultural as well as architectural gems point the metropolis centre as well as planners decease along coming upward alongside always to a greater extent than innovative architectural makeovers: the striking postindustrial Bullring shopping centre is simply the latest. Although the manufacturing manufacture that defined Birmingham every bit the ‘workhorse of the world’ is declining (workers at the Longbridge

Rover motorcar mill late felt the pinch of the moribund U.K. motorcar industry), the metropolis is good placed to adapt. More self-assured, cool as well as confident than it has been inwards many a year, it is hampered yesteryear exclusively 1 thing – its inhabitants’ accent, which is consistently voted
England’s to the lowest degree attractive.
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