Introduction : the change we see -- Southampton : terminus city -- Milton Keynes : Buckinghamshire alphaville -- Nottingham : the banality of aspiration -- Sheffield : the former socialist republic of South Yorkshire -- Manchester : so much to answer for -- Tyneside : from Brasilia to Baltic -- Glasgow : looking for the future in all the wrong places -- Cambridge : silicon fences -- The West Riding : instead of a supercity -- Cardiff : manufacturing a capital -- Greenwich : estuarine enclaves -- Liverpool : exit.