Is Piccadilly Gardens the Worst Public Space in the World?

Welcome to the heart of Manchester city centre - a wide open patch of land struggling to sort itself out. Piccadilly Gardens is not a city square, but it's certainly not a gardens. You can't sit here and enjoy some peace and quiet from the hectic city around you. You can't gather here in any decent number for celebrations, parades, protests or public speaking. It's hard to flow through on foot, and it doesn't invite you to sit down. It's surrounded by buses, tramlines and derelict retail units. And a fence. And it has a concrete wall. And it's never really been much better in the past either - from slurry pits to lunatic asylums, from ducking stools to suicide.

Please note, this video started as a simple 'history of' video until I started filming it. It's now a long moan with some sarcastic music thrown over the top. Enjoy!

Credit to the Manchester Evening News for a blurry bit of fountain footage halfway through. ;)

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