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Birmingham’s skyline is changing. Do the new buildings look the part?

We put the question to people in the city centre. Hear what they had to say.

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00:00Some of it's good and some of it's not too good. I mean, around this area here in the Bullring,
00:04I think it's quite nice what they've done, you know, but other areas could do with a lot more.
00:09And I think the English government could put more money into places where people need, like people maybe on low
00:16income or something like that.
00:17We've got no history now. I think the histories are going. That's what I say about it. But I don't
00:22know. I think they're trying to be like London because we're the second city, but they're trying to be a
00:27bit much like London.
00:28And I think when I was growing up, Birmingham was great because it was more for the people. But I
00:35think now I've noticed my friends said I wouldn't come and shop in Birmingham.
00:39The big changes in Birmingham, you can't miss, actually. And I think it's really good. Even the people complaining about
00:46that ferry bypass that's happening.
00:50Well, now you see it, it actually looks like it'll work quite well. So the complaints were not...
00:56Yeah, Birmingham's a lovely city. Parks, open spaces.
01:00You can't beat it because we've come from Somerset and we've come up here. And this is... The amount of
01:04parks to take your dog around is wonderful.
01:06I think Birmingham recently has... Like you can see the direction it's going in with its architecture and what it's
01:14trying to do.
01:15It's kind of trying to become a London 2.0, but at the same time there is no place in
01:20London.
01:20So it's kind of going in its own direction as well. You can see they're trying to do the trams.
01:24They're trying to renovate buildings and stuff like that. So it's good. It's good that it's got ambition.

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