Remaking Birmingham: The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration

ISBN-13: 9780415288392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 190 str.

Liam Kennedy

Opis

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. Joe Holyoak, Wendy Shillam, Glenn Howells, Wil Alsop, Sylvia King, Deborah Kermode, Nigel Prince, Tim Hall, Peter James, Nick Hedges, Roger Shannon, Maria Balshaw, Deborah Parsons and Jane Lutz.

Spis treści

Part I: Concrete Dreams 1. Street, Subway and Mall: Spatial Politics in the Bull Ring 2. Shopping for the Future: The Re-Enchantment of Birmingham's Urban Space 3. Developing an Aesthetic for Birmingham 4. Making the Ordinary Extraordinary 5. Acts of Madness - An Interview Part II: Interventions 6. Making Mansions 7. Public Art, Civic Identity and the New Birmingham 8. Off-Site 9. Intervening in Birmingham, Reinventing Ourselves  10. Merge Part 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 and Visual Images of Birmingham 14. Without Borders 15. Into the New, New, Old City.

O autorze

Liam Kennedy is Head of Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on American Urbanism, comparative urbanism, representations of the city in film and photography. His research and publications have been in the fields of urban studies and visual culture, including monographs (Susan Sontag, Race and Urban Space in American Culture); edited books (Urban Space and Representation, City Sites: Multimedia Essays on New York and Chicago [2000]), plus many articles on urban culture and representation.