Cultural Quarters

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The much-praised Cultural Quarters returns in a revised edition, offering new case studies and new chapters on the economics of cultural quarters and the importance of historical buildings. This definitive text provides a conceptual context for cultural quarters through a detailed discussion of urban design and planning. Drawing on several case studies (from Bolton, Birmingham, Ireland and Vienna), Cultural Quarters positions the emergence of specific cultural areas within a historical and social context and explores the economics of maintaining the respective districts. The book offers a concise illustration of how cultural practice is maintained and expanded within an urban environment.

Chapter 1: The Cultural Quarter Definitional Landscape 

Chapter 2: The Economics of Cultural Quarters 

Chapter 3: Higher Education and Cultural Quarters 

Chapter 4: The Role and Function of Historic Buildings in Cultural Quarters 

Chapter 5: Examples of Cultural Quarter Practice in England

Chapter 6: Features and Benefits of Cultural Quarters, Internationally

Chapter 7: Putting the Principles into Practice: A Cultural Quarter for a Proud Northern Town

Chapter 8: Key Influencing Factors in Establishing a Bolton Cultural Quarter

Chapter 9: The Nuts and Bolts: Outputs, Resources, Procurement Routes and Management

Chapter 10: Public Sector Decision-Making? Two Crescents: One Place?

Chapter 11: Modelling Composition of The Cultural Quarter in Practice 

Chapter 12: Conclusion

Sujets

• Arts visuels
• Architecture
• Cinéma
• Cinéma
• Cinéma
• Cinema
• Télévision
• Film
• Cultural Studies
• General
• Design
• Media studies
• Television
• General officer
• Index of urban studies articles
• Drafting
• Película fotográfica
• drawing

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781841504384
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Cultural Quarters
Principles and Practice
By Simon Roodhouse
First Published in the UK in 2006 by
Intellect Books, PO Box 862, Bristol BS99 1DE, UK
First published in the USA in 2006 by
Intellect Books, ISBS, 920 NE 58th Ave. Suite 300, Portland, Oregon
97213-3786, USA
Copyright 2006 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.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Cover Design: Gabriel Solomons
Copy Editor: Holly Spradling
Typesetting: Mac Style, Nafferton, E. Yorkshire
Electronic ISBN 1-84150-948-5 / ISBN 1-84150-139-5
Printed and bound in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press.
CONTENTS
Foreword by Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury to Cultural Quarters: Principles and Practice
Acknowledgements
Note on the Author
Contributors
Introduction
1 The Cultural Quarter Definitional Landscape
1.1 Creating Sustainable Cultures: Do We Need Them?
1.2 Conceptual Confusion: Arts Industry, Heritage Industry, Creative Industry or Culture as a Creative Industry?
1.3 Culture as a Creative Industry?
1.4 Defining Cultural Quarters and Cultural Industries Quarters
1.5 Criticisms of Cultural Quarters
1.6 The Ingredients for a Successful Cultural Quarter
2 Cultural Quarter Practice in England
2.1 Sheffield Cultural Industries Quarter
2.2 The Other Sheffield Cultural Industries Quarter: Sheffield Art Gallery and Museum Trust
2.3 A Reinvention of the Craft Industries, Wolverhampton Cultural Quarter
2.4 Cultural Entrepreneurship, Newcastle Arts Centre
3 Features and Benefits of Cultural Quarters, Internationally
3.1 The MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
3.2 Temple Bar, Dublin
3.3 Grand Opera House, Belfast
4 Putting the Principles into Practice: A Cultural Quarter for a Proud Northern Town
4.1 Politics: The Wider City, Region and the Manchester Shadow
4.2 Local Policy Frameworks
4.3 The Bolton Cultural Policy Concept
5 The Geographic, Demographic and Infra-structure Context
5.1 Bolton Public Sector Cultural Provision
5.2 Further and Higher Education, with some Reference to Schools
5.3 Bolton Cultural Industry Statistics
6 Key Influencing Factors in Establishing a Cultural Quarter
6.1 The Town Centre Factor, an Architectural Inheritance and Zoning
6.2 Creative Business Growth as a Contribution to Wealth Creation
6.3 The Existence and Use of a Council Cultural Infrastructure
6.4 The Existence of a Cultural Infrastructure and the Cultural Tourism Influence
6.5 Graduate Retention and Added Value Jobs
6.6 The Information Technology Phenomenon
6.7 The Importance of Cultural Diversity and the Bolton Profile
6.8 The Manchester Shadow
7 The Nuts and Bolts: Outputs, Resources, Procurement Routes and Management
7.1 Summaries of Outputs
7.2 Procurement Routes
7.3 Management Structures to Deliver the Development
7.4 The Availability of Public Resources to Support a Cultural Quarter Development
8 Public Sector Decision-Making? Two Crescents: One Place?
8.1 No Action
8.2 Adopt a Single Cluster Site
8.3 Adopt a Designated Cultural Quarter, Two Crescents - One Place?
8.4 A Generic Structural Model
8.5 The Purpose of a Cultural Quarter
8.6 How Can This Be Achieved?
9 Modelling the Cultural Quarter in Practice
9.1 Activity: Learning
9.2 Activity: Information, Networks and Digitisation
9.3 Activity: Performing Arts
9.4 Activity: Tourism and Hotels
9.5 Activity and Meaning: Cultural Organisations, Voluntary Groups and Societies
9.6 Activity and Meaning: Creative Businesses and Ateliers
9.7 Activity and Placemaking: Small Businesses and Shops
9.8 A Sense of Place: The Marketplace
9.9 A Sense of Place, Space and Fabric: The Town Hall and Public Events
9.10 A Sense of Place, Space and Fabric: Street Furniture, Signage, Nature and the Environment
9.11 Movement: Transport
10 Conclusion
10.1 How Do The Cultural Quarters Compare?
10.2 Critical Success Factors and Risks
Bibliography
Appendix 1 - The Bolton Town Action Plan
F OREWORD TO C ULTURAL Q UARTERS : P RINCIPLES AND P RACTICE
Cultural Quarters are very much the flavour of the times, these days, when it comes to thinking about urban regeneration. And rightly so. The successful encouragement of cultural activity, facilities, and enterprises as a vital part of the economic and social life of a city has been demonstrated time after time as bringing real benefit. You have only to look at Gateshead, or Salford, or Southwark, or Sheffield to see the truth of this. And with the creative industries growing at twice the rate of growth of the economy as a whole, creating employment and wealth and pointing to where the future lies for an advanced industrial economy like ours, it makes sense for cities to do their best to follow their example. When you couple this with a flourishing cultural and artistic life, it makes even more sense.
But we haven t really paid enough attention to the detail of how this can best be brought about. All too often we make the sweeping assumption that simply waving a magic wand over an area of urban dereliction and calling it a cultural quarter will result in a rush of cultural enterprise, coupled with sustained environmental improvement. It won t of course happen like that. Creating genuinely successful Cultural Quarters can be of huge benefit to a city, but the work to achieve them is going to take a long time, to require solid investment, and to need a lot of determination and imagination, especially on the part of local authorities.
This book looks at the detail. It asks the awkward questions. It challenges assumptions. It sets out, step by step, how particular cities have been successful. And it analyses in real detail how in one particular city - Bolton - a cultural quarter could be achieved. It helpfully sets British experience and aspiration within an international context. It brings together a number of experts and thinkers, all contributing to the debate. And it is rigorous in its examination of what has happened, and what is proposed.
It is a remarkably important contribution to the growing discussion about the future of our cities and the crucial role that culture can and should play. If we listen carefully, we may even succeed in putting that into practice.
Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury
1 February 2006
A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Special thanks are given to John Napier, Rebecca Albrow, John Parkin, Susan Ford and Peter Richards for making this book possible. As the book is based on research carried out for Bolton Borough Council, we would like to recognise the positive support received from the Council staff. Thanks are also due to Sarah Campbell, Wolverhampton City Council; Richard Motley, Sheffield CIQ; and Rev. Phillip R Mason, Victoria Halls Methodist Church, Bolton, for their willingness to provide information and answer questions. Particular thanks go to the Centre for Creative Communities and Jennifer Williams for allowing the reproduction of two case studies. It should also be noted that the case studies have been informed by earlier papers published by the author in the International Journal of Heritage Studies and the International Journal of Arts Management .
N OTE ON THE A UTHOR
Professor Roodhouse has substantial experience as an educator, manager and researcher in the fields of management, education, training and cultural policy. He has written extensively and published in national and international journals such as the Journal Of Education Through Partnership , the International Journal of Arts Management , the International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship , and the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society . In addition he has edited the Journal of Vocational Education and Training and sat on editorial boards such as Arts Documentation Monthly and the International Journal of Applied Management .
Awards and scholarships have included research fellowships at the University of Bradford, City University, Goethe Institute Cultural Scholarship, and a Leverhulme Trust Research grant. Currently he is Professor of Creative Industries at the University of the Arts, London, Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology, and Visiting Professor at the University of Bolton.
He has direct experience of management in the educational and cultural fields, currently as the Chief Executive for the University Vocational Awards Council and, latterly, as the founding Director of the Museum Training Institute. His senior management experience in higher education includes Dean of the School of Art and Design, University of Derby, Head of the School of Creative Arts, Northumbria University and Head of Academic Development, Bretton Hall, University of Leeds. In addition he is a director of his consultancy practice, Safe Hands (Management) Ltd.
C ONTRIBUTORS
RJ Buswell
Monika Mokre
John Montgomery
John Napier
John Parkin
Peter Richards
Simon Roodhouse
Alison Holmes
I NTRODUCTION
This book is intended to provide for the first time in a single volume a practical explanation of the principles and practice employed in considering, developing and establishing Cultural Quarters, using urban examples largely drawn from the north of England, north and southern Ireland and Austria, and focusing on a specific case of a proposed Cultural Quarter in a northern English town. The emphasis on case studies from the north of England is due to the need to regenerate the old industrial revolution primary manufacturing towns to avert decline and continuing unemployment. It is structured to assist local authority planners and economic development staff in the United Kingdom and internationally as well as public agencies responsible for supporting and developing the cultural and creative industries. In additi