Cultural brownfields in European cities: a new mainstream object for cultural and urban policies

Abstract

Educated in France she joined the University of Birmingham in 2009. She is particularly interested in the role of culture in urban regeneration in Europe and the paradigm of the creative city. She also explores coping practices and strategies of everyday resilience developed by individuals and communities facing various social and economic pressures, particularly in the current context of austerity.Boris Grésillon is Professor at the School of Geography (Aix en Provence). After defending his PhD on the cultural landscape of Berlin he joined the University of Provence as a lecturer in human and cultural geography. His main areas of research include the relation city and culture and the geography of art, particularly in France and in Germany. He also brings his expertise to the 2013 Marseille-Provence ECOC event being involved in various institutional and more informal discussion groups.

The Limits to Artist‐Led Regeneration: Creative Brownfields in the Cities of High Culture

“…This may entail the space transforming into a more lasting, even if more regulated, form. As Andres and Grésillon (: 53) observe, the transformation path of such spaces can take one of two directions: an adaptive process moving towards a more conventional and less conflictual space which is progressively included in more holistic urban policy and politics; or its disappearance as a spatial entity as a result of the incapacity to respond to and cope with the external economic, cultural and political pressures.…”

Partnerships for heritage conservation: evidence from the archeological site of Herculaneum

“…On a bigger scale, but following a similar logic, PPPs have been used to regenerate historical city centers (Fox et al 2005, Guarneros-Meza 2008Licciardi and Amirtahmasebi 2012;Radoslav et al 2013;Vicente et al 2015) or to turn industrial heritage sites-i.e. abandoned factories, warehouses, or waterfronts-into restaurants, private residences, theatres, concert halls, and art galleries (Andres and Grésillon 2011;De Sousa 2003;Gunay and Dokmeci 2012;O'Callaghan and Linehan 2007;Tiesdell 1995). As a common feature, these experiences require the adaptive reuse of heritage-i.e.…”

Revitalisation of industrial buildings in Hong Kong: New measures, new constraints?

“…Against the backdrop of globalisation and a new round of economic restructuring worldwide, de-industrialisation has been witnessed in many cities since the 1960s with abandoned and underused factories and warehouses (Adams & Watkins, 2002;Andres & Gr esillon, 2011;Marshall, 2004). Economic restructuring decades on has rendered most of these industrial buildings no longer for the intended uses and therefore transformations are needed.…”

“…Hall & Hubbard, 1996), creative class and creative city (e.g. Florida, 2005;Scott, 2006), global cities (Friedmann, 2005), various stakeholders (Steinberg, 1996;Zheng, Shen, & Wang, 2014) and so on (Andres & Gr esillon, 2011;Pratt, 2009). Sometimes, there are overlaps between these perspectives.…”