Remaking Birmingham: The Visual Culture of Urban RegenerationLiam Kennedy 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. |
Contents
The Creative Destruction of Birmingham | 1 |
Part I Concrete Dreams | 11 |
Part II Interventions | 55 |
Part III Imagineering Birmingham | 101 |
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Remaking Birmingham: The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration Liam Kennedy No preview available - 2004 |
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