Abstract
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Routledge Research Companion on Architecture, Literature and the City |
| Editors | Jonathan Charley |
| Place of Publication | Abingdon |
| Chapter | 18 |
| Pages | 306-326 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315613154 |
| Publication status | Published - 24 Aug 2018 |
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Keywords
- Glasgow
- architecture
- design
- The Italian Centre
- urban regeneration
- Merchant City
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Glasgow's Italian Centres : narrative, identity, regeneration. / Edwards, Sarah.
The Routledge Research Companion on Architecture, Literature and the City. ed. / Jonathan Charley. Abingdon, 2018. p. 306-326.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
TY - CHAP
T1 - Glasgow's Italian Centres
T2 - narrative, identity, regeneration
AU - Edwards, Sarah
PY - 2018/8/24
Y1 - 2018/8/24
N2 - This essay is the first interdisciplinary account of literary and non-fictional responses to the Italian Centre – a mixed-use development in Glasgow City Centre - since its inception and completion in the 1980s and 1990s. The essay argues that this early and important example of Glasgow City Council’s regeneration of the Merchant City district became a contested terrain for historic and emerging ideas about civic and national identity, cosmopolitanism and social inclusion. By examining a range of little-studied narratives – novels, architectural reviews, city marketing, interviews with the architect, visual narratives and autobiographies - I consider how these narratives promote or critique the ‘culture-led regeneration’ that the Centre embodied.
AB - This essay is the first interdisciplinary account of literary and non-fictional responses to the Italian Centre – a mixed-use development in Glasgow City Centre - since its inception and completion in the 1980s and 1990s. The essay argues that this early and important example of Glasgow City Council’s regeneration of the Merchant City district became a contested terrain for historic and emerging ideas about civic and national identity, cosmopolitanism and social inclusion. By examining a range of little-studied narratives – novels, architectural reviews, city marketing, interviews with the architect, visual narratives and autobiographies - I consider how these narratives promote or critique the ‘culture-led regeneration’ that the Centre embodied.
KW - Glasgow
KW - architecture
KW - design
KW - The Italian Centre
KW - urban regeneration
KW - Merchant City
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781472482730
SP - 306
EP - 326
BT - The Routledge Research Companion on Architecture, Literature and the City
A2 - Charley, Jonathan
CY - Abingdon
ER -