Regenerating Culture and Society
Architecture, Art and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City-Branding
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
Regenerating Culture is an essential guide to the visual arts regeneration strategies that local and national governments have adopted to position their cities in the booming global market for cultural heritage tourism. With case studies from England, Brazil, Colombia, China, Thailand, and the former Soviet Union, this volume offers critical analyses of the history of regeneration policies and practices with a unique focus on the use of art, architecture, and design as vehicles for the redesign and representation of cities. Among the topics considered in this volume are sustainability and energy production for cities, sexuality and architecture, surveillance and power on the streets, utopian imaginings of alternative societies, and consultation for social change in building.
Acknowledgements
Introduction—Re: ‘Regenerate’: The Art and Architecture of a Mixed Metaphor
Jonathan Harris and Richard J. Williams
Section—1 Selling (Out) the City?
1. On the Brandwagon
Jonathan Meades
2. Us and Them
Peter Leeson
3. Cinematic Visions of Urban Mobility: A Driving Perception
Ian Adrian Fletcher
4. Urban Regeneration in Liverpool: Sign-structures of the Visible and the Invisible
Richard Koeck
5. Curators, Artists, Urban Space
Cecilia Andersson
6. Exploring Subtopia: The Urban Art of Regeneration
Anil Pallan
Section 2—Urban: Past Tense/Future Conditional
7. Fragmented Utopias—Architecture, Literature and the Cinematic Image of the Ideal Socialist City of the Future: Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera
Stavros Alifragkis and François Penz
8. Brutalism Within and Against Regeneration: The Vagaries of an Ethical Aesthetic from Bevan to Blair
Owen Hatherley
9. New Threads for Old Labyrinths: Moving Bodies, ‘Trace-works’ and the Practised City
Gavin Macdonald
10. Engaging the City: Participation as Layering Multimedia Sensory Environments
Maria Prieto
11. City of Strangers: Urban Space, Fear and the Sacred in Northern Thailand
Andrew Alan Johnson
12. Street Life in Da Zha Lan
Ou Ning
13. Market Garden City: Making Slum Areas Productive to Build Sustainable Cities
Leonardo Cadena
14. Bio-Port Free Energy City
Simon Swietochowski
Section 3—Design and Desire
15. Regeneration, Sexuality and Space
Richard J. Williams
16. Search: An Artist Project for Television
Pat Naldi
17. Port Cities, Cosmpolitanism and ‘Otherness’: The (Mis-)Representation of Liverpool
John Belchem
18. Humility and Participation: Artichect as Social Agent Provocateur
Sarah Wigglesworth
19. Regeneration, Mobility and Contested Space: Cultural Reflections on a City in Transition
Les Roberts
Contributors
Architecture: Architecture--Criticism
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