Creating Space: A re-evaluation of the role of culture in regeneration

Abstract

Academic critiques of culturally-led urban regeneration, as this review makes clear, are manifold and persuasive.But to the despair of many commentators they have not yet weaned city governments off the idea of cultural regeneration or its related narratives of the 'creative city'.This review considers why this might be the case and, by looking at what is now a global literature on the problems of gentrificationand uneven development seeks to go beyond critiques of cultural regeneration, not to negate them, but to build on them in order to test the possibility of new narratives about the relationship between place and culture.By looking at literature beyond large urban centres, in smaller cities and the countryside and by considering how more localised activist-led cultural projects are working, the reviews aims to examine the potential for counter-narratives of cultural regeneration, different understandings of culture and of creativity that can help build a body of evidence, which can inform policy and education in the future.

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