Introduction: transforming post‑industrial Glasgow – moving beyond the epic and the toxic

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Keith Kintrea ◽  
Rebecca Madgin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Good Case ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Private Market ◽  
Post Industrial

This chapter examines Glasgow’s successful 21st century transformation from an industrial city and discusses the insecurities and contradictions that challenge this positive story of regeneration. It highlights why Glasgow makes such a good case study of a post-industrial city, by discussing its recent history using a framing that draws out the city’s ‘epic’ and ‘toxic’ dimensions, during which both the private market and state-led planning failed so spectacularly, leading to a city that was decaying, with more acute economic and environmental problems than any other British city. The chapter then considers the theory of post-industrialism as it was developed in the 1970s and the archetypical characteristics of a post-industrial city, to pose the question: what lies beyond that transitional status?

scholarly journals Urban Regeneration: From the Arts `Feel Good' Factor to the Cultural Economy: A Case Study of Hoxton, London

Urban Studies ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 1041-1061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy C. Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Post Industrial

This paper seeks to examine critically the role of culture in the continued development, or regeneration, of `post-industrial' cities. First, it is critical of instrumental conceptions of culture with regard to urban regeneration. Secondly, it is critical of the adequacy of the conceptual framework of the `post-industrial city' (and the `service sector') as a basis for the understanding and explanation of the rise of cultural industries in cities. The paper is based upon a case study of the transformation of a classic, and in policy debates a seminal, `cultural quarter': Hoxton Square, North London. Hoxton, and many areas like it, are commonly presented as derelict parts of cities which many claim have, through a magical injection of culture, been transformed into dynamic destinations. The paper suggests a more complex and multifaceted causality based upon a robust concept of the cultural industries as industry rather than as consumption.

Why Detroit Matters

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Recent History ◽  
Urban Decline ◽  
Political Fragmentation ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Ethnic Tensions ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation, Detroit’s relevance grows stronger. Why Detroit matters bridges academic and non-academic responses to this extreme example of a fractured and divided, post-industrial city. Detroit has long been portrayed as a metonym for urban failure, most often depicted through its ruins and abandonment. However, more recently, a new narrative of comeback has emerged. While both narratives depict parts of the city, they do not tell the entire story and need to be critically examined and placed within wider socioeconomic-, political-, geographic- and racial-contexts. This edited volume seeks to critically understand these contexts to examine both the lessons from Detroit’s recent history and the new and inspiring visions which can currently be found there. Rather than only seeing decline and abandonment, these visions and the scholarly pieces within the book offer hope for a fair and just urban future. Contributions from many of the leading scholars on Detroit are joined by influential writers, planners, artists and activists who have contributed chapters drawing on their experiences and ideas. The book concludes in a unique way with interviews with some of the city’s most prominent visionaries who are engaged in inspiring practices which provide powerful lessons for Detroit and other cities around the world.

scholarly journals Murals as a tourist attraction in a post-industrial city – a case study of Łódź (Poland)

Turyzm ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwona Jażdżewska
Keyword(s):  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Foreign Media ◽  
Post Industrial

The article presents the development of Łódź murals in the 21st c. and the opinions of the participants of tours organized in 2014 by the Urban Forms Gallery. Their objectives include saturating the urban fabric with street art and promoting this form of artistic expression. Having analysed memories registered and shared on YouTube, information published by local, national and foreign media, opinions posted by tourists and street-art lovers in online blogs and galleries, as well as the information about some artists on their websites, the author studied the opinions of tour participants as well and established the significance of Łódź murals. The analysis enabled her to look for the answer to the question whether murals can be a tourist attraction in a post-industrial city like Łódź.

The Green Room: The Gray Wolf--A Good Case Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 081 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Beckrich
Keyword(s):  
Gray Wolf ◽  
Good Case

Coming Back Home to Live and Not Die: A Human Geography of a Working-Class Black Gay Male Navigating the Local Higher Education Pipeline

2021 ◽  
pp. 004208592098729
Author(s):  
Amalia Z. Dache ◽  
Keon M. McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
Education Pipeline ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Narrative Mapping

The purpose of this study is to illustrate how in the span of three decades, a working-class Black gay male college student residing in a post-industrial city navigated college. Through a postcolonial geographic epistemology and theories of human geography, we explore his narrative, mapping the terrain of sexual, race and class dialects, which ultimately led to Marcus’s (pseudonym) completion of graduate school and community-based policy research. Marcus’s educational human geography reveals the unique and complex intersections of masculinity, Blackness and class as identities woven into his experiences navigating the built environment.

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