You've missed out Media City where you'll see the Imperial War Museum, the famous Lowry theater, BBC Northern HQ, the Granada Studios where they film Coronation Street and the Manchester Ship Canal/Salford Quays! It's only a stone's thrown from the Manchester United football ground.
Manchester is fast becoming one of the ugliest and tawdriest cities in England. … e,g just go to the Bridgewater Hall to witness the obliteration of the blue sky … It it building an innumerable number of priapic glass anti-family skyscrapers - NO CHILDREN ! … spivs and speculators run Manchester. … It has wilfully demolished much of its rich architectural heritage and is thus becoming boring, characterless and oppressive.