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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #64 EDAROTH
Description: Manchester – the city has been on the cutting edge since the birth of the industrial revolution. From John Dalton’s Atomic Theory in 1803, to the invention of Graphene in 2004. More recently it has given the world the greatest music ever made.
Home to 2.8 million people in 1.2 million dwellings over 500 square miles, Greater Manchester is the heart of the Northern Powerhouse and has a bigger economy than the whole of Wales… but this economy does not work for everyone.
As well as a bigger economy, Manchester also has a bigger homelessness problem. Years of declining social housin...