Glasgow's Italian Centres : narrative, identity, regeneration

Edwards, Sarah; Charley, Jonathan, ed. (2018) Glasgow's Italian Centres : narrative, identity, regeneration. In: The Routledge Research Companion on Architecture, Literature and the City. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 306-326. ISBN 9781315613154

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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.

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Item type:	Book Section
ID code:	62564
Dates:	Date Event 24 August 2018 Published 30 November 2017 Accepted 2017 Submitted
Keywords:	Glasgow, architecture, design, The Italian Centre, urban regeneration, Merchant City, Architecture, Architecture
Subjects:	Fine Arts > Architecture
Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English
Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
Date deposited:	07 Dec 2017 16:59
Last modified:	15 May 2022 00:04
Related URLs:	Journal or Publication
URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/62564

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