Mr Eglin is acutely alive to the way in which the received view of Bath, as a serene and homogenous Georgian polis, works to hide the fact that for most of Nash's time the place was a construction site, squabbled over by a set of bad-tempered competing interests: builders, architects and the city corporation itself.

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Liverpool City Council said an agreement had been reached with builders Regeneration Liverpool for the centre to open for the summer holidays.

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The cohort of kids included app-coders, rocket-builders, video-game designers, and city-planners many of them, as the President pointed out, not yet old enough to drive.

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Constraints include a lack of on-hand ready-to-build lots (the price of pre-developed land lots has skyrocketed), tight lending standards for small to mid-sized builders, and a notable shortage of construction workers since tradesmen fled the city several years ago and have not returned.

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There are builders who sugarcoat their proposals with big-name architects, irresistible bait in a city that shamefully settles for the ordinary.

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