Glasgow's Italian Centres: narrative, identity, regeneration

Sarah Edwards

Glasgow's Italian Centres: narrative, identity, regeneration

Sarah Edwards

English

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Abstract

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.

Original 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

Keywords

Glasgow
architecture
design
The Italian Centre
urban regeneration
Merchant City

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Sarah Edwards
- sarah.m.edwards@strath.ac.uk
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Glasgow's Italian Centres: narrative, identity, regeneration

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