文档介绍：Remaking Birmingham
Remaking Birmingham focuses on the visual culture of urban regeneration as a
key context for understanding the remaking of the city. It brings together
practising architects, artists, photographers and academics who represent and
comment on the city as a visual environment in which perception contributes
profoundly to regeneration.
The contributors explore the relationships between historical and
contemporary ways of seeing and representing change in Birmingham.
They consider how the design and building of the cityscape encode visual
understandings of urban space; how the relationship between the built
environment and social process is mediated by the visual forms of the city; how
strategies for rebranding the city impact upon its broader visual economy; and
how planners, architects, artists and image-makers participate in urban
representation and redevelopment. They also address the need to visualize new
ideas of place munity within post-industrial urbanism.
The volume is multidisciplinary in content, including contributions from
specialists in architecture, public munity arts, photography, and urban
studies—their critical perspectives linked by interest in urban visual culture.
The book aims to contribute to practical and critical understandings of the
relations between design, regeneration and the arts in contemporary urbanism.
The city of Birmingham and its environs provide a rich case study for such
concerns as this once major industrial city strives to build a new city image
amidst an uncertain post-industrial future.
The book reflects upon and extends current debates about urban regeneration,
the design of public space, and the role of arts in urban redevelopment.
Liam Kennedy is Head of Department of American and Canadian Studies,
University of Birmingham. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses
on American Urbanism, comparative urbanism, representations of the city in film
and photography. His re