Liverpool Beyond the Brink is a fascinating commentary on the economic decline that
caused the physical, social and political fragmentation of the imperial city during the
1970s and the efforts since then to revive and reconnect it. It charts Liverpool's fall in
the 1980s, its gradual normalisation in the 1990s, its staggering achievements and, as
a European city in the first part of this century, its efforts to be ambitious...