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Picton regeneneration
- Liverpool.
A now well-positioned urban area close to Liverpool City Centre, Picton has
been subjected to the push and pull of economic change and urban infrastructure
interventions designed in the past 100 years to bypass the area and link the
suburbs to the Pierhead. This has resulted in a fragmented, heterogeneous
reality with the west part of Picton disintegrating and the east part a still
intact urban grain. The planning strategy seeks to find the means of returning
a homogeneity to the area, with a re-invigorated 'High Street' running the
length of the neighbourhood, significant new development in the east and a
'menu' of smaller interventions - an urban acupuncture - throughout.
