Outlandish, wildly ambitious, plain odd or just downright daft, Manchester’s had more than its fair share of eyebrow-raising ideas over the years.
From postwar proposals to demolish the town hall to a 1960s plan to build a monorail, they’re the well-intentioned but WTF moments that, with the benefit of hindsight, make you go ‘just what were they thinking?’.
And now Dr Martin Dodge, a geography lecturer at the University of Manchester, has uncovered another classic of the genre.
