rebness

i think Manchester tries (sort of) it has a lot of history and great architecture. I think we get so used to seeing it and it becomes a blur. But when you walk around the city and compare the Manchester city art gallery to the historic huge library building, and then go to the hideous glass structure that has just built etc i do think they are trying hard to differientiate the city from others to attract more people to the city. But then you get like you say rows and rows of the same stores and its like ? why bother? i get the same shops at TRafford and stockport, where is the incentive for me to go into what is a lovely city? Manchester has different shops, but they have lost a lot of them, Aflecks isnt the same, the Corner Exchange has gone and replaced with designer boutiques. I loved Paris because it still had the Latin Quarter with independent shops with differnt products. I wish they bring that feel back to Manchester, it used to have it. Even the Craft Quarter in Manchester is now hidden and hard to find... making way for expanding high street yawn shops.