The Museum of the City, exploring life in different cities of the world, focusing on Los Angeles, Paris, Sao Paolo, Singapore, Tokyo and of course Manchester.  All hi-tec and interactive with a building to match, you start your exploration with a ride in an all-glass 45 degree elevator.  By a twist of fate, Manchester's most futuristic building occupies land once occupied by a warren of filthy courts and decrepit housing which Frederick Engels described in his work 'The Condition of the Working Class in England'.  In a further twist of fate, by examining such cities a Sao Paolo, Urbis shows how little has been learned since Manchester became the model for unregulated and uncontrolled urban and industrial expansion.