Remaking Birmingham: The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration

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Liam Kennedy
Routledge, 2004 - Architecture - 156 pages
The city of Birmingham offers a particularly rich case study on urban regeneration as it strives to build a new city image. Positioned between decline and regeneration, the landscape of the city and its environs collages old and new, producing dramatic contrasts - of industrial and post-industrial urbanisms of crumbling brutalism and spectacular flagship developments, of Victorian housing and diverse cultural lifestyles - that compound the aesthetic and socio-economic means of regeneration. This visually exciting book also reflects upon and extends current debates about public space, cultural zoning and the futures of cities.

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About the author (2004)

Liam Kennedy is senior lecturer in American studies at the University of Birmingham.

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