The Mayor of England’s Steel City Plans a New Industrial Revolution
To replace decaying 19th century industries, the region around Sheffield lures high-tech manufacturing from McLaren supercars to Boeing airplane parts.
Oliver Coppard, Mayor of South Yorkshire.
Photographer: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images EuropeThis story is part of a Bloomberg CityLab series of conversations with mayors about how they’re making their cities more livable. Read the previous stories here, about ending traffic deaths in Hoboken, New Jersey, and butterfly conservation in Columbia Heights, Minnesota.
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The steel that fed England’s industrial revolution and powered its rise to a global empire came from a region in its northern hills, where iron and abundant coal deposits combined with sweeping rivers to create an ideal environment for steelmaking. That region, anchored by the city of Sheffield, is now looking to create a new industrial revolution.