The mid-1980s marked the beginning of an ambitious plan to regenerate Belfast, starting with the area around the river Lagan. Once at the industrial heart of the city, the river and its surrounds had been more or less abandoned as dirty and dilapidated. In addition, Belfast had a serious image problem - its citizens might know and love its superb natural setting, its grand public buildings and its fine parks - but in the wake of the Troubles most of the world regarded it as a battle-scarred wasteland. In 1986 Chris Hill opened his photographic studio in a Victorian warehouse in the old linen quarter behind the City Hall. Jill Jennings joined the studio in 1989, and photographing the positive side of the city they both loved became their driving passion. Since the ceasefires in the 1990s, more and more people are sharing that passion, looking with renewed pride at the city's Victorian and Edwardian architecture and with increasing approval at exciting new developments. With over 180 photographs by Hill and Jennings, this book captures both the spectacular new Belfast - the Waterfront Hall, the Odyssey complex, the Gasworks site - and the familiar older city, often transformed by imaginative facelifts like the one at St George's Market. The portrait they paint of a spruced-up Belfast facing confidently into a better future will surprise and delight citizens and visitors alike.