Remaking Birmingham

TRAMA

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.

SOMMARIO

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.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415288392
• Dimensioni: 9.6666667 x 7.4444444 in Ø 1.10
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 65 b/w images, 95 color images and 8 line drawings
• Pagine Arabe: 190