1st Edition

Culture-Led Urban Regeneration

Edited By Ronan Paddison, Steven Miles Copyright 2007
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

The idea that culture can be employed as a driver for urban economic growth has become part of the new orthodoxy by which cities seek to enhance their competitive position. Such developments reflect not only the rise to prominence of the cultural sphere in the contemporary (urban) economy, but how the meaning of culture has been redefined to include new uses in order to meet social, economic and... Read more

Section 1. Processes. 1. Deconstructing the City of Culture: The Long-term Cultural Legacies of Glasgow 1990. Beatriz Garcı´a  2. Urban Designscapes and the Production of Aesthetic Consent. Guy Julier.  3. Interruptions: Testing the Rhetoric of Culturally Led Urban Development. Malcolm Miles.  4. ‘Our Tyne’: Iconic Regeneration and the Revitalisation of Identity in NewcastleGateshead. Steven Miles.  5. Arts Festivals and the City. Bernadette Quinn.  6. The Global Cultural City? Spatial Imagineering and Politics in the (Multi)cultural Marketplaces of South-east Asia. Brenda S. A. Yeoh.  Section 2. Evaluation. 7. Measure for Measure: Evaluating the Evidence of Culture’s Contribution to Regeneration. Graeme Evans.  8. Sport and Economic Regeneration in Cities. Chris Gratton, Simon Shibli and Richard Coleman.  9. Just Art for a Just City: Public Art and Social Inclusion in Urban Regeneration. Joanne Sharp, Venda Pollock and Ronan Paddison.

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Steven Miles, Ronan Paddison