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A smart ecological urban corridor for the Manchester Ship Canal

Biscaya, S; Elkadi, HA

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Authors

S Biscaya



Abstract

The paper examines the possibilities of developing a smart ecological urban corridor straddling the 36 miles long Manchester Ship Canal (MSC). Set within the historic counties of Cheshire and Lancashire (where the first planned industrial estate exists), the area is characterized by river and Canal settlements and centuries-old agricultural patterns that persist today. The MSC played a significant role during the industrial revolution. More recently the development of Media City UK at one end provides a smart typology that could expand along the length of the Canal to provide a contemporary new smart urban corridor.

This paper examines a number of ecological scenarios that could create smart networks in different parts of the Canal with its overlapping industrial estates, farms, villages, business parks, and ports.

Utilising a Delphi Technique, a series of cross-boundary multi-disciplinary meetings and workshops with key experts, partners from City Councils, key developers, industry partners and landowners were designed to identify consensus on potential future scenarios for the MSC.

The research utilised a new multi-disciplinary participatory workshop approach to develop a number of ecologically based scenarios; a blue-sky approach was used in the workshops underpinned by data analysis of a number of pre-determined catalysts for the MSC.

Citation

Biscaya, S., & Elkadi, H. (2021). A smart ecological urban corridor for the Manchester Ship Canal. Cities, 110, 103042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.103042

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 23, 2020
Online Publication Date Dec 22, 2020
Publication Date Mar 1, 2021
Deposit Date Jan 14, 2021
Publicly Available Date Jun 22, 2022
Journal Cities
Print ISSN 0264-2751
Publisher Elsevier
Volume 110
Pages 103042
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.103042
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.103042
Related Public URLs http://www.journals.elsevier.com/cities/
Additional Information Access Information : This article is based upon a conference paper. The repository record for that presentation is available here: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/49874/
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