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9780415288385

Remaking Birmingham: The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415288385

  • ISBN10:

    041528838X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-09-24
  • Publisher: Routledge

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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 postindustrial 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. The volume is multi-disciplinary in content, including contributions from specialists in architecture, public and community arts, photography and urban studies - their critical perspectives linked by interest in urban visual culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Notes on contributors xi
Illustration credits
xv
Introduction: The Creative Destruction of Birmingham 1(10)
Liam Kennedy
Part I Concrete Dreams
11(40)
Street, Subway and Mall: Spatial Politics in the Bull Ring
13(12)
Joe Holyoak
Shopping for the Future: the Re-enchantment of Birmingham's Urban Space
25(10)
Deborah Parsons
Developing an Aesthetic for Birmingham
35(6)
Wendy Shillam
Making the Ordinary Extraordinary
41(4)
Glenn Howells
Acts of Madness -- An Interview with Will Alsop
45(6)
Liam Kennedy
Part II Interventions
51(46)
Making Mansions
53(10)
Sylvia King
Public Art, Civic Identity and the New Birmingham
63(10)
Tim Hall
Off-Site
73(8)
Deborah Kermode
Merge
81(10)
Graham Gussin
Nigel Prince
Intervening in Birmingham, Reinventing Ourselves
91(6)
Dave Pollard
Part III Imagineering Birmingham
97(52)
Birmingham, Photography and Change
99(14)
Peter James
Take Me Higher: Birmingham and Cinema
113(6)
Justin Edgar
The Altered Eye: the European Capital of Culture Bid and Visual Images of Birmingham
119(10)
Jane Lutz
Without Borders
129(6)
Vanley Burke
Into the New, New, Old City
135(14)
Maria Balshaw
Bibliography 149(7)
Index 156

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