Remaking Birmingham: The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration

By Liam Kennedy

The city of Birmingham offers a particularly rich case study on urban regeneration as it strives to build a new city image. Positioned between decline and regeneration, the landscape of the city and its environs collages old and new, producing dramatic contrasts - of industrial and post-industrial urbanisms of crumbling brutalism and spectacular flagship developments, of Victorian housing and diverse cultural lifestyles - that compound the aesthetic and socio-economic means of regeneration. This visually exciting book also reflects upon and extends current debates about public space, cultural zoning and the futures of cities.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415288398
• ISBN13: 9780415288392
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 9.6"