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The city centre is getting denser and denser. Is this a good thing?

Dear Millers — Did you know that just 20-odd years ago, researchers were concerned that Manchester would end up having too much housing and not enough people? In the words of James Gilmour, who penned today’s fascinating essay on Manchester’s housing density, “the recent past isn’t so much a different country as a completely different planet.” Urban density may not sound like the sort of topic that gets your heart going pitter patter, but you’re going to have to trust us here. But first: the elections, and the bidding war for United.