Reflective images: the case of urban regeneration in Glasgow and Bilbao

Gómez, M. Victoria

doi:10.1111/1468-2427.00126

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“…The Guggenheim Museum was an expensive project, and researchers question whether the cultural life of the Basque Country might not have been better served by investing the money in local arts and artists. 18,19 This corresponds with Bianchini and Parkinson ' s conclusions that regeneration based around prestige attractions does little to benefi t the disadvantaged members of the community. 20 Early cultural regeneration projects failed to integrate low income and ethnic minority groups culturally, socially or spatially.…”

Section: Cultural Regeneration and Flagship Projectssupporting

confidence: 76%

City centre masterplanning and cultural spaces: A case study of Sheffield

Holmes

Beebeejaun

2007

J Retail Leisure Property

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Kirsten Holmesis a Lecturer in Tourism at the University of Surrey. Previously, she worked at the University of Sheffi eld teaching MA Arts and Heritage Management. Her research focuses on various aspects of cultural and heritage tourism, including museum visiting, volunteering in museums, leisure, sport and tourism and human resource management in museums. She has published several book chapters and journal articles, including papers in Tourism Management, the International Journal of Heritage Studies and Museum Management and Curatorship. Yasminah Beebeejaunis a Senior Lecturer in Planning and Architecture at the University of the West of England. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Sheffi eld where she investigated the construction of identity in plan-making processes. Her research interests include the tensions between community, participation and planning (particularly, master planning), and she has published her research in Planning Theory and Practice. AbstractThis paper presents a case study of Sheffi eld city centre ' s masterplan, focusing on the Heart of the City civic core. Sheffi eld was one of the fi rst city councils to use culture as a basis for economic regeneration. The literature argues that while early regeneration was economically driven, under New Labour cultural planning has become more focused on creating inclusive spaces. The new developments in Sheffi eld associated with the masterplan have been in two stages. The fi rst created award winning public cultural spaces, including the Millennium Galleries and Winter Garden. The second phase has led to private, commercial developments, which this paper argues have impacted negatively on the public spaces. The public spaces do not meet the inclusive aspirations of either Sheffi eld ' s local strategic partnership or cultural policy. The Sheffi eld case, however, demonstrates how all regeneration is located within local economic realities. As a secondary city within its region, in terms of offi ce rents, there is a limit to what the public sector in Sheffi eld can demand from the private sector. The masterplan ' s developments are ongoing and there is evidence that as offi ce rentals are increasing the public sector could exert more power in the future.

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Section: Cultural Regeneration and Flagship Projectssupporting

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City centre masterplanning and cultural spaces: A case study of Sheffield

Holmes

Beebeejaun

2007

J Retail Leisure Property

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“…The first international branch of such a museum was the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. In the 1990s, Bilbao pursued construction of the GMB as part of a larger urban scheme to address several local troubles: industrial crisis (Gomez 1998); high unemployment (Plaza 2008); heavy pollution; and violence from Basque separatists (Abadie and Gardeazabal 2003). Along with several other public policies, the museum impacted the economy by creating a new tourist base (economic diversification) and re-imaging the city.…”

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Culture-led city brands as economic engines: theory and empirics

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Cultural re-imaging through iconic art museums aims to create symbolic capital for a place in the form of creative images, reputation and associations with innovation. While literature has long identified architectural uniqueness as a potential driver of brand competitiveness, we argue diffusion of that image is equally important. This work draws upon economic concepts from other cultural industries (such as film, music and art) to develop a framework for understanding how cultural brands are built: How reproducible images of singular architecture accumulate in the media to strengthen a brand. We then test an art brand's impact on visitors. This work aims to offer evidence that the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao brand generates tourism to the city of Bilbao. By understanding how iconic cultural infrastructures create symbolic capital, policy makers may better tailor similar culture-led branding strategies to other places.

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“…Thus, the city would use place marketing as an economic tool to regeneration in which ' culture and image were the central features in the promotion of a post-industrial Glasgow during the 1980s ' ( Gomez, 1998 ). This was an extremely attractive approach to take as:…”

Section: Towards Cultural Regenerationmentioning

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“…Along with the opening of this distinctive landmark in 1985, was the contribution of Gordon Cullen in designing a plan to improve the environmental and physical quality of the city centre. Most notably, this involved the transformation of Buchanan Street as a central pedestrian street, thriving in retail activity, making it the focal point of the city centre ( Gomez, 1998 ). Glasgow is now credited with an extremely effi cient transportation system, including the ' grid-like layout of the inner city making it easy to navigate ' ( Turnball, 2003 ), which has consequently catapulted the retail and leisure demand within the city centre boundary.…”

Section: Towards Cultural Regenerationmentioning

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The cultural production of cities: Rhetoric or reality? Lessons from Glasgow

Tucker

2008

J Retail Leisure Property

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Our cities are under great strain to gain competitive advantage in today ' s global climate, in which the function of place marketing has never been greater. One of the most prevalent dimensions is the notion of the cultural city, where cities essentially market themselves based on both their traditional and contemporary cultural heritage. A key mechanism is the European Capital of Culture (ECOC) award, a potential catalyst for economic, physical, social and cultural growth. But to what extent does the complex nature of culture translate real change within the urban environment? In light of Liverpool ' s recent award as ECOC 2008 and the scale of current retail and leisure development in the city, this paper draws on the experiences of Glasgow ' s ECOC 1990 award. Seventeen years on from Glasgow ' s success, an event that has stimulated much debate, the city has now won the bid to host the Commonwealth Games in 2014. The paper discusses what lessons today ' s UK cities, like Liverpool, can learn from the Glasgow model, and the impact such hallmark events can have in achieving sustainable urban growth. Concludes that through applying the thoughts of Short (1996) that with such events there will always be a dichotomy between the rhetoric and the reality, we must not underestimate the complexity of urban culture, but still embrace the long-term sustainable potential that events like the ECOC can bring to the urban environment.

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Reflective images: the case of urban regeneration in Glasgow and Bilbao

Cited by 181 publications

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City centre masterplanning and cultural spaces: A case study of Sheffield

City centre masterplanning and cultural spaces: A case study of Sheffield

Culture-led city brands as economic engines: theory and empirics

The cultural production of cities: Rhetoric or reality? Lessons from Glasgow

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