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Manchester Compendium of Spatial Inclusion

During the academic year 5th year Masters of Architecture students are began exploring the development of a housing and communities strategy for Manchester, working with Manchester City Council, local Housing Providers and other partners. We examined the following three issues and relating detailed / design aspects of these investigations back to a strategic overview across the city. Producing a compendium of issues of spatial inclusion in relation to housing provision.

1 Natural urbanism - 'Naturally Occurring Communities' and other urban synergies exploring how services and community assets can be better accessed and distributed across the city working with housing trust and regeneration team partners and local residents.

2 Accommodating ability - looking into 'specialist housing' and adaption to existing housing in terms of densification and diversification of housing stock exploring a range of social and technical issues working with housing trust and accessibility group partners and local residents.

3 Living together - looking at new forms of cooperative housing across the city working with co-housing groups and housing trust partners and local residents.