Cultures And Settlements: Advances In Art And Urban Futures Volume 3 (intellect Books - Play Text)

Cultures & Settlements Edited by Malcolm Miles Nicola Kirkham Cultures and Settlements Advances in Art and Urban Futures Volume 3 Edited by Malcolm Miles and Nicola Kirkham intellect TM BRISTOL, ENGLAND PORTLAND, OR, USA First Published in 2003 by Intellect Books, PO Box 862, Bristol, BS99 1DE, UK First Published in USA in 2003 by Intellect Books, ISBS, 5824 Hassalo St, Portland, Oregon 97213-3644, USA Copyright ©2003 Intellect Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission. Consulting Editor: Masoud Yazdoni Book and Cover Design: Joshua Beadon – Toucan Copy Editor: Holly Spradling Set in Joanna A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1-84150-089-5 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd., Eastbourne. Contents Foreword Marion Roberts 5 Introduction Malcolm Miles 9 Contributors 11 Part One – Culture and Policy Cultural Planning in East London Graeme Evans 15 Culture and Commerce – European Culture Cities and Civic Distinction Judith Kapferer 31 Low-income Housing and Community Participation in N E Brazil Denise Morado Nascimento 43 Birmingham as a Cultural City Tim Hall 49 Part Two – Place Identity A New Script for the Lake District Paul Usherwood 61 Candy Coated Chronotope – Spatial Representations of a Seaside Resort Nicola Kirkham 69 Consumption and the Post-Industrial City – Nike Town Friedrich von Bories 75 University Campus as Ghost City Habil Jan Hartman 87 Part Three – Cultural Practices Border as Dialectic/Alison Marchant Judith Rugg 93 Icy Prospects Liz Wells 105 Puppet Theatre & Child Rights Cariad Astles 121 Lisbon Capital of Nothing Mario Caeiro 133 Southall Project Helen MacKeith 147 The Gift of Water Jackie Brookner 159 Bibliography 171 Foreword The last decade of the twentieth century saw a revision in attitudes towards the city. The views that had characterised urban policy in the early and middle decades of the century were reversed towards a celebration of the traditions of European urbanism. The modernist project, with its programme for wholesale demolition, disdain for historic urban form and over-valuing of the free flow of space in the form of motorways and underpasses, high-rise towers and disconnected urban plazas, became discredited. Instead features of nineteenth-century urbanism were re-evaluated and set out as virtues to be emulated rather than as ills to be cured. High densities, mixed development, streets and squares were reclaimed as essential components of city culture. Anti-urbanism, which had formed such a major paradigm, not only in town planning, but also in other forms of literary and artistic expression, gradually gave way to a fascination with urban intensity and metropolitan culture. The city