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Remaking Birmingham : the visual culture of urban regeneration / edited by Liam Kennedy.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--England--Birmingham.
- City planning.
- Urban renewal--England--Birmingham.
- Urban renewal.
- Birmingham (England).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (162 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Cover; Remaking Birmingham; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Illustration credits; Introduction: The Creative Destruction of Birmingham; Part I Concrete Dreams; 1 Street, Subway and Mall: Spatial Politics in the Bull Ring; 2 Shopping for the Future: the Re-enchantment ofBirmingham's Urban Space; 3 Developing an Aesthetic for Birmingham; 4 Making the Ordinary Extraordinary; 5 Acts of Madness-An Interview with Will Alsop; Part II Interventions; 6 Making Mansions; 7 Public Art, Civic Identity and the New Birmingham; 8 Off-Site; 9 Merge
- 10 Intervening in Birmingham, Reinventing OurselvesPart III Imagineering Birmingham; 11 Birmingham, Photography and Change; 12 Take Me Higher: Birmingham and Cinema; 13 The Altered Eye: the European Capital of Culture Bid andVisual Images of Birmingham; 14 Without Borders; 15 Into the New, New, Old City; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-155) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-44257-2
- 1-280-15641-4
- 0-203-64397-6
- 0-203-65314-9
- 9780203643976
- OCLC:
- 61394898
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