I would greatly appreciate if someone suggested relevant literature on culture-led regeneration explaining the notion and practices/events and etc. which it encompasses. What about art and cultural urban festivals are they a part of culture-led regeneration?
Dear Maria,
there are plenty of good examples for urban regeneration via cultural programs in the european cities. The collapse of traditional inner-city industry resulted brownfield type residential and transitional areas where governmental or municipial projects were started with a strong emphsasis on culural events, creative design and trade and shops. In many cases the central demand met the local interests, or even, local residents have played a determining and initiative role in the process. Culture-led regeneration went on in several negihbourhoods of Berlin, for example the Hackescharer Markt and Höfe, where small art shops and crafts workshops have settled together with boutiques and fashio shops, etc. BEsides the private development cafés, meeting places, cultural centres have been developed to create a new, vivid public life.
Some interesting examples can also be found in Budapest, where we have small regeneration projects for urban revitalisation. The literary cafés or the small local exhibition palces can be mentioned as both private and municipal-founded developments. In many local areas the specialised Merchant's street is a way of regenaration.
In all cases the cultural investments have to strengthened by urban development, renewal of building stock and the urban open spaces. In this aspect urban landscape architecture has an important role in the improvement of the character and the environment quality, together with strengthening the local ecological processes, like rising the green cover, decreasing the heat island effect, increasing the rain water infiltration, etc.
I hope I could add some ideas for your research.
Kinga Szilágyi
landscape architect
Budapest
Dear Kinga,
thank you very much for the answer. It's a really helpful and inspiring insight!
Dear Maria,
I found the following article very helpful in understanding the Triple-Helix model and namely the role of cultural spaces involved in bootstrapping the development of Knowledge Societies. Hope it helps you too. I suggest that before starting to read it thoroughly, first have a look at its Figure 7. You may also find some relevant literature sources in its list of references.
An Advanced Triple-Helix Network Model for Smart Cities Performance.
http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/bitstream/handle/1871/24007/rm?sequence=1
Best.
Aryan
Maria,
Here are a couple of useful articles on cultural regeneration for consideration
Healey, P. (2004). Creativity and urban governance. The Planning Review, 40(158), 11-20.
Sacco, P., Ferilli, G., & Blessi, G. T. (2014). Understanding culture-led local development: A critique of alternative theoretical explanations. Urban Studies, 51(13), 2806-2821.
Cheer,
Simon
Dear Simon,
thank you very much for providing me with these! Articles look promising.
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