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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 |
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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 (Member)
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