Remaking Birmingham

The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration

172 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 post-industrial 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.

• Themen: Technologie, Ingenieurswissenschaft, Landwirtschaft, Industrieprozesse Bauingenieur-, Vermessungs- und Bauwesen
• ISBN: 9780415288392
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.08.2004
• Größe: 244 x 192 mm
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Herausgegeben von: Liam Kennedy