Regenerating Culture and Society: Architecture, Art and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City Branding

Jonathan Harris & Dr. Richard Williams

Softcover |21.59 x 2.03 x 17.02 cm | 336 pp

Liverpool University Press | 2011 | 9781846316401

This collection is an essential guide to, and critique of, visual arts regeneration strategies mobilised by local and national governments attempting to brand their cities in contemporary regional and global markets for lucrative industries, tourism and heritage recognition.

Looking at cities such as Liverpool, Barcelona, Boston and Da Zha Lan in China, it offers critical analyses of the history of regeneration policies and practices with a unique focus on the use of architecture, art and visual culture as vehicles for the re-design and re-presentation of cities. Themes treated include 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.

CHAPTERS:

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
7. Fragmented Utopias – Architecture, Literature and the Cinematic Image of the ldeal Socialist City of the Future: Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera – STAVROS ALIFRAGKIS & 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 Multimedla – 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 – QU NING
13. Market Garden City: Making Slum Areas Productive to Build Sustainable Cities – LEONARDO CADENA
14. Bio-Port Free Energy City – SIMON SWIETOCHOWSKI
15. Regeneration, Sexuality and Space – RICHARD J. WILLIAMS
16. Search: An Artist Project for Television – PAT NALDI
17. Port Cities, Cosmopolitanism and ‘Othernes”‘: The (Mis-)Representation of Liverpool – JOHN OELCHENM
18. Humility and Participation: Architect as Social Agent Provocateur – SARAH WIGGLESWORTH
19. Regeneration, Mobility and Contested Space: Cultural Reflections on a City in Transition – LES ROBERTS