Re-imaging the City’ was commissioned by the Shrinking Cities research project as a collaboration between Joshua Bolchover (Newbetter) and Kevin Ward – an urban geographer at the University of Manchester. Conceived as a graphic tablecloth, the piece depicts the strategic shift of Manchester City Council from the local socialist voice of "Defending Jobs, Improving Services", to the dynamic rhetoric of "Making it Happen", that attempted to re-position Manchester as an important global city. Its mechanism was the formation of public-private partnerships that involved key figures from the public and private sectors that would later be known as the "Manchester Mafia". The tablecloth highlights six case studies to illustrate this shift, and to demonstrate the integration of the private sector into the decision making structure of the Manchester Town Hall.