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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Edwards, Sarah ![]() | Item type: | Book Section |
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ID code: | 62564 |
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: | 25 Jan 2021 04:15 |
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URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/62564 |
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