The Modern City
1970–present
Modern Liverpool is a city that refused to accept the narrative written for it. The decades following 1970 brought deindustrialisation, the Toxteth riots, Hillsborough, and an economic collapse that emptied the docks and hollowed out entire neighbourhoods. Yet from that low point came one of the most remarkable urban regenerations in European history. The Albert Dock reopened, the waterfront was transformed, Capital of Culture arrived in 2008, and a city that had been written off rediscovered its identity as a place of culture, creativity, and fierce civic pride. The story is still being written.
