Liverpool Beyond the Brink

Liverpool Beyond the Brink is a fascinating commentary on the economic decline thatcaused the physical, social and political fragmentation of the imperial city during the1970s and the efforts since then to revive and reconnect it. It charts Liverpool’s fall inthe 1980s, its gradual normalisation in the 1990s, its staggering achievements and, asa European city in the first part of this century, its efforts to be ambitious in an age ofausterity. This thought-provoking work asks: how far has Liverp