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
Street Subway and Mall Spatial Politics in the Bull Ring | 13 |
Shopping for the Future The Reenchantment of Birminghams Urban Space | 25 |
Developing an Aesthetic for Birmingham | 35 |
Making the Ordinary Extraordinary | 41 |
Acts of Madness An interview with Will Alsop | 45 |
Interventions | 51 |
Making Mansions | 53 |
Public Art Civic Identity and the New Birmingham | 63 |
Intervening in Birmingham Reinventing Ourselves | 91 |
Imagineering Birmingham | 97 |
Birmingham Photography and Change | 99 |
Take Me Higher Birmingham and Cinema | 113 |
The Altered Eye The European Capital of Culture Bid and Visual Images of Birmingham | 119 |
Without Borders | 129 |
Into the New New Old City | 135 |
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