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Cultural quarters : principles and practice / edited and written by Simon Roodhouse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roodhouse, Simon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--England.
- City planning.
- City planning--Ireland.
- City planning--Austria--Vienna.
- Urban renewal--England.
- Urban renewal.
- Urban renewal--Ireland.
- Urban renewal--Austria--Vienna.
- Cultural property--England.
- Cultural property.
- Cultural property--Ireland.
- Cultural property--Austria--Vienna.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, U.K. : Intellect, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This definitive book provides a conceptual context for cultural quarters through a detailed discussion concerning the principles of urban design and planning. To examine these issues, the book presents several case studies drawn from Northern England, Ireland and Vienna to position the emergence of specific cultural areas within a historical and social context and the economics of maintaining the respective districts.Extending this investigation, the author provides an explicit analysis of Bolton Borough Council's moves towards establishing a cultural sector in the town centre, with references
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Cultural Quarter Landscape; Chapter 2: The Cultural Economics of Quarters; Chapter 3: The Role and Function of Historic Buildings in Cultural Quarters; Chapter 4: Universities and Cultural Quarters; Chapter 5: Cultural Quarter Practice in England; Chapter 6: Features and Benefits of Cultural Quarters, Internationally; Chapter 7: Putting the Principles into Practice: A Cultural Quarter for a Proud Northern Town; Chapter 8: Key Influencing Factors in Establishing a Cultural Quarter
- Chapter 9: The Nuts and Bolts: Outputs, Resources, Procurement Routes and ManagementChapter 10: Public Sector Decision-Making: Two Crescents: One Place?; Chapter 11: The Composition of the Cultural Quarter in Practice; Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix 1 - The Bolton Town Centre Action Plan
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-89610-5
- 9786612896101
- 1-84150-438-6
- OCLC:
- 680793382
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